Daily media digest August 4, 2017

HRI Portal
“OTTAWA, August 4, 2017 — The long-term productivity of Canadians and Canadian businesses rely on investment in basic scientific research, as described in this year’s Fundamental Science Review, led by Dr. C. David Naylor says Research Canada.”
TAGS: FINA, scientific research, Naylor report, Research

 

UCalgary News
“By Katie Denslow, for the Campus Mental Health Strategy … journey in Indigenous psychotherapy, mental health, education and research,” she says.”
TAGS: Indigenous, mental health

 

Pique Newsmagazine
“Following the incident, the BC Nurses Union (BCNU) called on VCH to … as with the Provincial Health Services Authority and Providence Health Care.”
TAGS: nurse safety, VHC, PHSA, Pemberton Health Centre

 

MetroNews Canada
“The new service is aimed to help physicians provide opioid dependency treatment for more patients in their own communities, Health Minister Sarah …”
TAGS: Alberta Health Services, opioid, online advice

 

VUE Weekly
“She herself has multiple sclerosis,” says Goldin Stahl, a PHD student at Montreal’s Concordia University. “She writes a lot about being a patient from …”
TAGS: Concordia University, healing illness, art, multiple sclerosis

 

The Globe and Mail
“Councillor Joe Mihevc, the chair of Toronto’s board of health, said on … pharmacology and toxicology at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in …”
TAGS: opioid-related deaths, supervised sites, public health

 

Markets Insider
“.. Manchester, UK and the Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. Clinicians and scientists from the Princess Margaret …”
TAGS: Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Elekta MR-linac, global research partnership, UHN, MR/RT system

 

Stockhouse
““In Alzheimer’s Disease, beta-amyloid aggregates into a plaque-like substance that builds around the neurons and disrupts communication between ..”
TAGS: IGC, Alzheimer’s, THC

 

PR Newswire (press release)
“… Canada Foundation for Innovation, Eshelman Institute for Innovation, Genome Canada, Innovative Medicines Initiative (EU/EFPIA), Janssen, Merck …”
TAGS: Genome Canada, Kinase Chemogenomic Set (KCGS), Oncology, immunology, neuroscience

 

Toronto Star
“The 12-week intervention, developed by clinical researchers at Holland Bloorview and IWK Health Centre in Halifax, uses objects that grab a child’s …”
TAGS: IWK Health Centre, autism, Holland Bloorview

 

EurekAlert (press release)
“The research was funded by Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the … Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and the Michener Institute for Education; …”
TAGS: The Michener Insitute of Education at UHN, University Health Network, Brain tumor, map mutation, childhood cancer, neuroscience

 

MIMS General News
“New cystic fibrosis biomarkers identified in infant sweat … Now, scientists from McMaster University, Canada are studying chemical indicators that …”
TAGS: cytokines, biomarker, pancreatic cancer, McMaster University

 

University Affairs
“Contact!Unload blends soldiers’ stories with data to call attention to deployment-related psychological trauma. By SARA HAROWITZ | AUG 03 2017.”
TAGS: mental health, Research, psychological trauma

 

UCalgary News
“Collins recently received a prestigious Wounded Warriors Canada Doctoral Scholarship in Military and Veteran Health Research for her study that she …”
TAGS: PTSD research, University of Calgary, family health

 

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