March

New jail plans firming up for Ottawa as budget is released Ottawa Citizen “The Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. This month Premier Kathleen Wynne came to Ottawa to promise CHEO $105 million to build a […]

New intervention aims to improve treatment adherence among teen kidney transplant recipients News-Medical.net “Transplant specialists and researchers from eight leading pediatric medical centers across Canada and the United States have united to help make a […]

Majority of Chantix users return to smoking after cardiac event Healio “In a related editorial, Robert D. Reid PhD, of the divisions of prevention and rehabilitation and of cardiology, at the University of Ottawa Heart […]

How having a stroke saved this woman’s life CBC.ca “Another of Caluori’s physicians, Dr. Lucy Gilbert of the Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre, said ovarian cancer often starts in the Fallopian tubes as […]

Heart Institute opening ‘most significant expansion in 40 years’ Ottawa Citizen “After 12 years of planning and work, the University of Ottawa Heart Institute’s state-of-the art critical care facility is ready for patients, adding the […]

MUHC and Johns Hopkins join forces to develop a new Gene-based screening test using Pap test … McGill University Health Center “Montreal — A team from the Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) […]

Should Rare Disease Patients Fear National Pharmacare? hriportal.ca Ottawa, ON – March 20, 2018 – Will a national pharmacare program make it easier or harder for rare disease patients to get the medicines they need? […]

University of Saskatchewan granted over $4 million by feds for various health studies 620 CKRM.com “The government of Canada is making more funding available for a number of diverse health research projects at the University […]

Heart Institute to open 145000-square-foot expansion Ottawa Citizen “Three years after breaking ground, the University of Ottawa Heart Institute is set to open a 145,000-square-foot facility that it calls the “latest and most sophisticated in […]

Researchers develop 3D-printed stethoscope for use in war zones … CTV News-17 hours ago “Although it’s taken for granted here in Canada, the modern stethoscope is unavailable to health care professionals in certain parts of […]