Year: 2019

Fighting tuberculosis: Databases are new and powerful weapons National Post “Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the top 10 global causes of death. It is caused by bacteria that first settle in the lungs and spread […]

Effective therapy for depression difficult to access in Canada CTV News “Bruce Kruger, a patient with the University Health Network, undergoes rTMS therapy. The therapy involves sending magnetic pulses to targeted …” TAGS: depression, mental […]

‘Like hearing their voices’: Researcher analyzes suicide notes to save lives CTV News “Dr. Rahel Eynan, a scientist with the Lawson Health Research Institute in London, Ont., is unravelling such mysteries one heart-wrenching note at […]

Q BioMed’s Technology partner Mannin Research forges research collaboration with McMaster University for Glaucoma drug MAN-01 Proactive Investors USA & Canada “Q BioMed Inc (OTCQB:BIO) announced Friday that its technology partner Mannin Research has struck […]

What Vancouver Island’s first ‘dementia village’ could look like CTV News Vancouver Island “”The people who live here are the people who struggle with more progressive dementia,” said Jo-Ann Tait of Providence Health Care. “For […]

AHS looking to improve FASD services AHS looking to improve FASD services Bonnyville Nouvelle “Those with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) can’t always access the services available to them, and Alberta Health Services (AHS) is […]

Calgary student drives effort to make medical inventions more affordable around the world Toronto Star “CALGARY—A set of guidelines recently adopted by the University of Calgary aims to make the school’s medical technology and medicine […]

Anti-vaccination views among top threats to global health: WHO CTV News “… the other threats are always a biological or an environmental challenge,” Steven Hoffman, a professor of global health at York University in Toronto, […]