Daily Media Digest October 16, 2018

Tbnewswatch.com
“According to a news release from the university, Radialis Medical, a joint venture between Lakehead and the Thunder Bay Regional Health Research …”
TAGS: research funding, NSERC

 

TheChronicleHerald.ca
“Diabetes 360 has the support of groups including the Canadian Medical Association, the Canadian Nurses Association and the Canadian Indigenous …”
TAGS: diabetes, prevention strategy, lobbying

 

The Guardian
“MONTREAL – McGill University researchers have found that driving under the influence of cannabis remains dangerous for up to five hours after use.”
TAGS: cannabis use, impaired driving, study

 

CBC.ca
“University of Saskatchewan researchers are working with a First Nation in southern Saskatchewan on a project to measure the effects of climate …”
TAGS: climate change, Research, Indigenous, partnership

 

Toronto Star
“A community wrought with “despair” over lives lost to overdoses marched to ask the province to lift its ongoing freeze on new sites intended to help …”
TAGS: opioid crisis, harm reduction, safe consumption site, Ontario

 

CBC.ca
“Workers on the front lines of Ottawa’s opioid crisis say the life-saving antidote naloxone is increasingly ineffective because drug users are showing up …”
TAGS: naloxone, drug use, overdose