Daily Media Digest January 29, 2020

Pioneering patient with extreme OCD sees success with new psychosurgery
CTV News
“A pioneering patient with extreme obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is championing a new treatment which uses targeted ultrasound on the brain to treat the condition. … Doctors at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre targeted a small part of the brain…”
TAGS: mental health, OCD, psychosurgery, innovative treatments

AI-analyzed blood test can predict the progression of neurodegenerative disease

McGill Newsroom
“Scientists at The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) of McGill University and the Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics and Mental Health …”
TAGS: neurodegenerative disease, artificial intelligence, blood tests

Study to test potato product’s effects on chronic kidney disease

UM Today (press release)
“Dr. Dylan MacKay, assistant professor of community health sciences at the University of Manitoba and clinical trialist at the George and Fay Yee …”
TAGS: chronic illness, kidney disease, microbiome

Women face higher rates of pain, depression after strokes than men, study finds

The Globe and Mail
“… at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and adjunct scientist at ICES (formerly known as the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences).”
TAGS: depression, pain, stroke, women’s health

Scientists search for coronavirus vaccine in high-security lab

CBC.ca
“VIDO-InterVac is one of the largest, most advanced infectious disease research sites in the world and the lab is in the second-highest category of …”
TAGS: coronavirus, vaccine development, public health 

National Diabetes Repository a Game Changer for Research
HRI Portal
“This is one of the core reasons Diabetes Action Canada developed the National Diabetes Repository (NDR). The NDR is a tool that researchers can use to better analyze information about people living with diabetes across Canada to improve health outcomes and prevent complications.”
TAGS: diabetes, chronic illness, innovative research tool

A fat that fights infection
UHN
“A new study from UHN reminds us that some saturated fats can promote health when consumed in the recommended quantities.”
TAGS: dietary health, infection, wellness

Bridging medicine and agriculture to prevent age-related illness
University of Saskatchewan
“If Dr. Christopher Eskiw (PhD) and his co-investigators are correct, the inner workings of brewing yeast could point the way to greater human longevity and the prevention of age-related illness, perhaps even the reversal of aging.”
TAGS: longevity, aging population, age-related illness