Daily Media Digest October 1, 2018

Canada NewsWire (press release)
“In recognition of Health Literacy Month, ABC Life Literacy Canada has … program,” says Stéphane Lassignardie, General Manager of AbbVie Canada.”
TAGS: health literacy, ABC Health Matters, AbbVie

 

Toronto Star
“… it is such a horrible experience,” says Rampersaud, who works out of the Toronto Western Hospital campus of the University Health Network.”
TAGS: chronic pain, treatment, lower back pain

 

Canada NewsWire (press release)
“… Centre, Heart & Stroke, the Canadian Mental Health Association, and a youth ambassador from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.”
TAGS: Global health, United Nations, Ginette Petitpas Taylor

 

The Gazette • Western University’s Student Newspaper
“Western course’s study highlights costs of seniors’ falling … recent study whose authors include five students and a professor from Western University.”
TAGS: senior care, falling, paramedics

 

Sudbury.com
“ICES North is a partnership among Health Sciences North Research … directly connect with ICES central at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.”
TAGS: Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, northern Ontario

 

CTV News
“… with Colorectal Cancer Canada, which directed them to the Young Adult Colorectal Cancer Clinic at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto.”
TAGS: colon cancer, young adults, diagnosis, symptoms

 

CTV News
“Doctors at the McGill University Health Centre are testing the SoundBite Active Wire in a small group of patients who have “chronic total occlusion” of …”
TAGS: cardiology research, medical device

 

CBC.ca
“Children and teens living with mental illness are less likely to graduate from high school and more likely to be involved in the justice system, …”
TAGS: mental illness, lifetime health

 

CTV News
“Indigenous services minister Jane Philpott went to the UN’s first meeting to talk better solutions to tackle it Wednesday. Earlier this year, UN members …”
TAGS: tuberculosis, Indigenous, Jane Philpott, United Nations

 

The Globe and Mail
“I’m confidant they will reach the same conclusion that I have – these sites save lives,’ said federal Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor. Overdose …”
TAGS: overdose prevention sites, opioid crisis, Ontario, Ginette Petitpas Taylor

 

Globalnews.ca
“Diabetes Canada says more than 100,000 people have been diagnosed with Diabetes in Saskatchewan, while another 173,000 have pre-diabetes.”
TAGS: Indigenous, diabetes, training program, prevention

 

IT World Canada
“When Rebecca Comrie, director, reporting and analytics at the Toronto-based Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) joined the organization …”
TAGS: data analytics, artificial intelligence, learning health system

 

Toronto Star
“Janice Abbott, CEO of the Atira Women’s Resource Society — which is running the site in partnership with Vancouver Coastal Health — said …”
TAGS: overdose prevention sites, women, access to services, opioid crisis