Common antidepressant can cut COVID-19 hospitalization by up to 30 per cent – CTV News
CTV News
“The study, co-led by researchers at McMaster University and published … Health Canada working to review Merck’s experimental COVID-19 pill …”
TAGS: COVID-19, pandemic, treatment, hospitalization, McMaster University
Behind the Research: How at-home sleep tests can help diagnose sleep apnea in patients with stroke
Your Health Matters
“Dr. Mark Boulos, stroke neurologist and sleep expert, is among a team of Sunnybrook researchers who are exploring this in patients who have had a stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA).”
TAGS: sleep apnea, sleep tests, neurology, stroke, transient ischemic attack, Sunnybrook RI
Sunnybrook researchers demonstrate groundbreaking evidence of focused ultrasound enhanced delivery of targeted antibody therapy to breast cancer that spread to the brain
Sunnybrook Research Institute
“Researchers at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre are the first in the world to demonstrate the safe delivery of an antibody therapy across the blood-brain barrier using MRI-guided focused ultrasound.”
TAGS: ultrasound, medical technology, innovative research, cancer, women’s health, Sunnybrook RI
U of T researchers’ lab-grown muscles used to study Duchenne muscular dystrophy …
University of Toronto
“… and director of the regenerative medicine program and Sprott Centre for Stem Cell Research at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute.”
TAGS: Duchenne muscular dystrophy, innovative research, stem cell, Ottawa Hospital Research Institure
Gamifying Training to Support Retention of Frontline Workers: Learning Inter-Professionally Healthcare Accelerator (LIPHA) Platform Helps Rapidly Close the Skills Gap in Long Term Care
HRI Portal
“An investment of $1.2 million by the Ministry of Colleges and Universities (MCU) in the LIPHA program will enable long-term care homes and postsecondary education institutions in Ontario to provide personalized, on-demand training for existing health care professionals and students considering a career in the field.”
TAGS: frontline workers, long term care, Baycrest
‘Strikes like clockwork’: U of A research pinpoints respiratory illness pattern in babies | Globalnews.ca
Global News
“Some Alberta researchers have discovered a pattern when it comes to seasonal viruses and they say it could help predict the future of the COVID-19 …”
TAGS: COVID-19, influenza, children and youth health, public health