Daily Media Digest February 14, 2019

CBC.ca
“… chief of the Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. He’s an expert on treatment-resistant depression and …”
TAGS: cannabis, depression, teens

 

TheChronicleHerald.ca
“… think that’s the case,” adds Azad, who is also a Canada research chair in Developmental Origins of Chronic Disease at the University of Manitoba.”
TAGS: breast milk, chronic disease, babies

 

CBC.ca
“… depression,” said Dr. Amer Burhan, a researcher at Lawson Health Research Institute and a neuropsychiatrist at St. Joseph’s Health Care London.”
TAGS: depression, treatment, clinical trial, magnetic seizure therapy

 

TheSpec.com
“A Hamilton Health Sciences’ neurologist and McMaster University professor, Dr. Demetrios Sahlas, says this is the first time he’s heard of a diagnosis …”
TAGS: Alzheimer’s disease, early onset, stigma

 

UCalgary News
“This work, based out of Callahan’s Neurocognitive Disorders Lab, will broaden dementia knowledge to a wider, more representative range of …”
TAGS: Canada Research Chair, Kirsty Duncan, ADHD, Dementia, neuropsychology

 

The Gazette • Western University’s Newspaper
“BrainsCAN, a Western University research initiative, is creating the database to publish and share data from research on mice’s brains. The group is …”
TAGS: open science, data, cognitive behavioural science

 

The London Free Press
“London is getting a thumbs up when it comes to equitable access to family doctors, Western University researchers say in a new study analyzing …”
TAGS: health care, accessibility

 

YouAreUNLTD (blog)
“… holder of the Barbara G. Stymiest Chair in Rehabilitation Technology Research at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute ‒ University Health Network.”
TAGS: Networks of Centres of Excellence, innovation, healthy aging

 

Globalnews.ca
“Alberta program aims to test more newborns for hearing loss … Alberta health officials hope a new program will result in more newborns getting … Yang, the Alberta Health Services (AHS) screening medical director, on Wednesday.”
TAGS: hearing loss, newborns, early detection

 

CBC.ca
“… Noni MacDonald, professor of pediatrics at Dalhousie University, and a specialist in pediatric infectious diseases at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax …”
TAGS: vaccinations, public health, children