Canada NewsWire (press release)
“/CNW/ – The Province has appointed three new members to the Board of Directors of Saskatchewan’s Health Quality Council (HQC). Joining the HQC Board are a career public servant and a business leader from Saskatchewan, and an Indigenous community-based …”
TAGS: Saskatchewan HQC, Carrie Bourassa, Indigenous health
McGill Newsroom
“An international research team led by scientists at the University of Lorraine in France along with McGill University and the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) in Canada discovered a new cause of a rare condition known as cblC, that they named “epi-cblC”. “
TAGS: Epigenetics, Vitamin B12, rare disease
Canada NewsWire (press release)
“Rob MacIsaac, president and CEO of Hamilton Health Sciences, looks forward to using the tool as part of the organization’s existing wellness programming for its 11,500 employees. “Many US-based studies have demonstrated positive returns on investment for wellness initiatives, but finding Canadian … “
TAGS: online tool, employees, health risks
NIH launches partnership to improve success of clinical trials for patients with Parkinson’s disease
National Institutes of Health (press release)
““Advancing treatments for Parkinson’s disease is hampered by insufficient understanding of biological networks; drugs aimed at seemingly promising therapeutic targets fail in clinical trials,” said NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. “By combining our expertise and resources, AMP PD partners …”
TAGS: Parkinson’s disease, partnership, clinical trials
LADbible
“Experts at the New York University carried out the research which involved exposing a human and mice bladder and lung cells to e-cig smoke and watching what damage it caused. Let’s face it, we all know any sort of smoking isn’t really good for you but the finding that the cells mutated when hit by the … “
TAGS: vaping, cancer causing, e-cigarette Research
The Sudbury Star
“Supervised injection sites got their start in Canada in Vancouver in 2003 with Insite. The program has been a phenomenal success. According to Vancouver Coastal Health, “more than 3.6 million clients have injected illicit drugs under supervision by nurses at Insite since 2003. There have been 48,798 …”
TAGS: safe injection sites, sudbury, mental health
Torontoist
“Sure, you’ve heard of Sidewalk Labs—but what about their spin-off, Cityblock? Under Sidewalk Labs’ plan for Toronto’s eastern waterfront, the Quayside will become a test bed for all manner of experimentation and innovation, including healthcare. What does that actually mean in practice?”
TAGS: Sidewalk Labs, Toronto, experimental clinics
Lethbridge Herald
“Alberta Health Services has introduced a new provincewide opioid awareness campaign. It includes advertising on light-rail transit trains in Edmonton and Calgary, billboards, radio spots and posters at post-secondary campuses, in restaurants and in bars. Associate Health Minister Brandy …”
TAGS: opioid crisis, Alberta, opioid awareness campaign
OHRI News
“Sixteen research groups at The Ottawa Hospital, affiliated with the University of Ottawa, have been awarded $12.7 million in the most recent project grant competition from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). This represents a success rate of 30 percent, double the national average of 15 percent.”
TAGS: research project, immune system, cancer
CBC.ca
“For the last 20 years, Dr. Sultan Darvesh has been collecting brains. In his lab at Dalhousie University, he compares a normal brain to one from a person who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease. “You can see how shrunken that it, Alzheimer’s disease is where there has been a shrinkage of the brain cells … “
TAGS: brain tissue, Alzheimer’s Disease, treatment
TheChronicleHerald.ca
“… frugal mental health literacy interventions in our institutions and organizations. And, while we are doing all these things, we can’t forget that we still have to solve the challenge of improving rapid access to effective care for those who need it. Dr. Stan Kutcher, Dalhousie University, IWK Health Centre.”
TAGS: mental health, real solutions, Dr. Stan Kutcher
News@UofT
“Dr. Upton Allen, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the Hospital for Sick Children and professor in U of T’s Faculty of Medicine, has also been named … He is president and CEO of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and a distinguished fellow of U of T’s Munk School of Global Affairs.”
TAGS: Order of Ontario, U of T, pediatric infectious disease specialist
Northwestern University NewsCenter
“… said Jayne Danska, PhD, professor of Immunology and Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto and a senior scientist at The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute. She presented the keynote address on “Emerging Mechanisms in Immune-Meditated Disease: Genes, Sex and Microbes.”.”
TAGS: Autoimmunity Research, women’s health
CBC.ca
“The study is funded by Prostate Cancer Canada and the New Brunswick Health Research Foundation. The toenail samples were collected through Atlantic PATH, the more common name for the Atlantic Partnership for Tomorrow’s Health Study. Atlantic PATH is part of a national study into how genetics, …”
TAGS: toenail clippings, prostate cancer
Brunswickan
“Recently, a few UNB students have joined their passions for research and health to create an innovative and unique editorial right here in Atlantic Canada. The Atlantic Student Research Journal (ASRJ) is student-run and peer-reviewed, and the journal’s mandate came from the reasoning that health is … “
TAGS: The Atlantic Student Research Journal (ASRJ), peer-reviewed, student-run, Health Research
Edmonton Journal
“From left, Dr. Rich Sutton, Dr. Michael Bowling and Dr. Patrick Plarski, all professors specializing in artificial intelligence at the University of Alberta, will run the new Edmonton offices of Google DeepMind. DeepMind, Google’s AI research division, announced the deal on July 5, 2017. “
TAGS: artificial intelligence, top researcher, U of A
CBC.ca
“Instead, she hopes to see racism in Canada’s modern health care system addressed through more funding and increased dialogue with Indigenous communities. “There must be structural changes in health care to address injustices in quality, access and health outcomes,” she said. “Indigenous people .”
TAGS: Indian Hospital, Minister Bennett, class action
News@UofT
“Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a new technology for creating more durable, disease-fighting molecules that could lead to … Currently, patients who take GLP1, which was discovered at U of T by Professor Daniel Drucker of the Faculty of Medicine, or PTH, must inject these …”
TAGS: mirror-image molecules, better medicines
Embedded Computing Design
“Engineering software tools like MATLAB are helpful in that they allow medical device engineers and researchers to analyze large amounts of varied data types and then quickly begin prototyping and algorithm implementation. And they can develop and deploy new machine learning models without … “
TAGS: AI technology, machine learning, medical industry
Montreal Gazette
“Two experts in the treatment of eating disorders will speak at CEGEP Gérald-Godin in Ste-Geneviève, Feb. 6 at 7 p.m. The event marks Eating Disorder Awareness Week, which runs Feb. 1-7. Dr. Howard Steiger, head of the Eating Disorders Program at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute and …”
TAGS: expert speakers, eat disorders, Eating Disorder Awareness Week