Daily Media Digest February 2, 2018

IRCM
“Research from the IRCM contributes to our understanding of how our brain locates painful stimuli”
TAGS: painful sensation, brain, Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM) researchers

 

CTV News
“Their study shows that two-thirds of the heart disease clinical research into focuses on men. But heart disease kills five times more women than breast cancer does. Dr. Marc Ruel is the Division Head of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, one of the few institutions in Canada that …”
TAGS: heart disease, women’s health, heart and stroke

 

National Post
“In November, Vancouver Coastal Health began a year-long pilot project checking drugs at two supervised consumption sites in the Downtown Eastside. A small sample of a user’s drug is put into a portable machine that uses infrared light to test for contaminants. The majority of the drugs tested contain …”
TAGS: Study, Fentanyl, found in drugs, opioid crisis

 

rdnewsnow.com
“Sara Kreklewich is a Disordered Eating Consultant with Alberta Health Services in Red Deer and says there is a lot of stigma and shame attached to eating disorders, so more open discussion is needed to change that. “Let people recognize or have them know it’s not a choice, it’s a very serious mental …”
TAGS: Eating disorder Awareness Week, removing stigma

 

Macleans.ca
“The whole focus of our research is how we can use digital health technologies to help young people with painful chronic conditions,” says Stinson, a faculty member at U of T’s Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, who also runs the iOuch lab at SickKids Hospital. One recent pilot project …”
TAGS: nursing program, sickkids, robots

 

Business Times (press release)
“The article’s author group is comprised of key opinion leaders on the subject, including Samuel St-Onge, MD (Montreal Heart Institute (MHI); Louis P. Perrault, MD, (MHI); Philippe Demers, MD, (MHI), Edward M. Boyle, MD, (St. Charles Medical Center, Bend, OR); A. Marc Gillinov, MD, (Cleveland Clinic); …”
TAGS: post-op atrial fibrillation, retained blood, Samuel St-Onge, MD, Montreal Heart Institute

 

GenomeWeb
“Under the first initiative, Genome Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and other partners will provide C$162 million over four years to … This program includes researchers from the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute in Ottawa, Toronto’s SickKids, the University of …”
TAGS: Genome Canada, proteomics, rare disease, crop genomics

 

The Globe and Mail
“Canada is known globally for its strengths in research collaboration. Our country has over two dozen institutions focused exclusively on neuroscience and mental health research, establishing brain science as one of our greatest areas of research strength. We boast over a dozen pan-Canadian consortia …”
TAGS: national brain-research strategy, neuroscience

 

EurekAlert (press release)
“Platelets play a much more important role in our immune system than previously thought, according to a study published by researchers from Université Laval and Centre hospitalier universitaire (CHU) de Québec Research Centre. In addition to their role in coagulation and healing, platelets …”
TAGS: Research, platelets, immune response

 

Macleans.ca
“Juan Fernando Hernandez-Garcia became intrigued by the buzz around U of A’s AI faculty while studying statistics at the university. He enrolled in Sutton’s reinforcement learning course and was instantly hooked. Hernandez-Garcia, who had previously studied three years of psychology, was fascinated …”
TAGS: artificial intelligence, machine learning

 

The Globe and Mail
“Mr. Yoachim expects Kw’umut Lelem will use additional funds for services such as cultural programming and health and wellness for families. “In child welfare, unfortunately, sometimes the parents are neglected from the conversation – we’ll create programming and parenting programing for parents … “
TAGS: health and welfare, Indigenous health, child health

 

CBC.ca
“As part of a larger research project in partnership with the Western College of Veterinary Medicine in Saskatoon, she is trying to identify cats with Type 2 diabetes to determine what is causing the disease on the molecular level. Her research uses tissues from dead cats that were donated to veterinary …”
TAGS: cats, humans, Type 2 diabetes

 

CBC.ca-1 hour ago
“It seemed to me the more we could help them connect with their birth experience, then perhaps it would translate later to improved mental health, improved physical health,” she said. Bowen is working on two research projects that dovetail. In the first, she’ll be talking to Indigenous women about their birth stories, and what …”
TAGS: birth, Indigenous health