Daily Media Digest December 10, 2018

The Globe and Mail
“… physician in Ottawa and the director of specialty education at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada who is leading the overhaul, …”
TAGS: medical education, resident doctors

 

iPolitics.ca
“Minister of Science and Sport Kirsty Duncan championed a made-in-Canada version of the gold-standard Athena SWAN program, which is designed …”
TAGS: Athena SWAN, diversity, equity, STEM, Kirsty Duncan

 

UCalgary News
“W21C is a health research and innovation initiative within the University of Calgary’s O’Brien Institute for Public Health and Alberta Health Services.”
TAGS: International Classification of Diseases, public health, health data

 

CBC.ca
“Reid said Diabetes Canada applauded the earlier policy, calling it progressive and saying the province had sought feedback from groups such as the …”
TAGS: obesity, nutrition guidelines, schools, New Brunswick

 

The Globe and Mail
“… novel set of perception experiments devised by Laurence Harris, a professor with the Human Performance Laboratory at York University in Toronto.”
TAGS: perception, experiments, zero-gravity research

 

CTV News
“We find that it’s encouraging,” said Dr. Alain Ptito of the Montreal Neurological Institute. “75 per cent of the subjects responded positively with the high …”
TAGS: brain injury, treatment, neuromodulation stimulator

 

CBC.ca
“Dr. Richard Wennberg, a neurologist with the University Health Network in Toronto, calls boxing “prototype of an unsafe sport for brain function.”.”
TAGS: boxing, brain injury, sports medicine

 

The Globe and Mail
“At his psychiatric clinic at QEII Health Sciences Centre in Halifax, Allan Abbass is showing video clips of his therapy sessions. A man arrives via …”
TAGS: chronic pain, psychotherapy

 

CBC.ca
“Dr. Jacalyn Duffin, a hematologist and medical historian at Queen’s University who studies the drug shortage issue, believes the problem affects many …”
TAGS: drug shortages, prescription medication

 

McGill Newsroom
“A team from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre … Unit at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM) in the study.”
TAGS: rare disease, immune system