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Daily media digest June 28, 2017

New bladder cancer therapy to start clinical trials Medical Xpress “An experimental treatment for bladder cancer will move into an early phase clinical trial under an agreement signed today (Monday) between Cancer …” TAGS: cancer, […]

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Daily media digest June 27, 2017

New health research lab opens The Sudbury Star “New health research lab opens … Dr. Janet McElhaney, vice-president of research and scientific director at Health Sciences North, poses for … solutions for health challenges faced […]

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Daily media digest June 26, 2017

When Anxiety or Depression Mask a Medical Problem NYTimes “Indeed, doctors at the Montreal Heart Institute reported in 1996 that about a quarter of 441 patients who came to the emergency room because of chest […]

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Daily media digest June 22, 2017

Biofilms — the eradication has begun EurekAlert (press release) But there is good news – a research team led by the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) and The Hospital for Sick … […]

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Daily media scan June 21, 2017

FACIT Builds on Commercialization Momentum by Attracting Experienced Executive-in-Residence Canada NewsWire (press release) “FACIT creates and seeds growth companies with a hands-on approach to cultivate sustainable biotechnology start-ups in Ontario, as we have done … Alberta […]

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Brain cancer research led in Ontario gets a $10M boost

Dr. Reza Moridi, Minister of Research, Innovation and Science, today announced five translational research grants funded by the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), one of which will boost a first in-human phase one clinical trial to test the safety and efficacy of an oncolytic virus vaccine called Farmington that was engineered at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute (RI) in Dr. David Stojdl’s lab. […]

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Inflammatory bowel diseases on the rise in very young Canadian children

a new study by researchers at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute and the Canadian Gastro-Intestinal Epidemiology Consortium….The number of children under five being diagnosed with IBD is alarming because it was almost unheard of 20 years ago, and it is now much more common,” says Dr. Eric Benchimol, lead author of the study, scientist at ICES, associate professor at the University of Ottawa, and a pediatric gastroenterologist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Inflammatory Bowel Disease Centre […]

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Report on Fundamental Science Presents a Bold Plan to Reinvigorate Canadian Research

Research Canada applauds the Advisory Panel on Federal Support for Fundamental Science on its bold and visionary report, Investing in Canada’s Future: Strengthening the Foundations of Canadian Research, released today in Ottawa. We were pleased to see that so many of Research Canada’s recommendations in its submission to Canada’s Fundamental Science Review, Securing Canadian Leadership in Research and Innovation, were addressed in the Panel’s Report. […]