Daily Media Digest October 3, 2018

UCalgary News
“Hollis, a Cumming School of Medicine neuroscience master’s student, is among 15 graduate students to receive University of Calgary’s 2018 …”
TAGS: stroke, trainee, Research

 

McGill Newsroom
“A team of Canadian scientists, including researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (The Neuro) has discovered the first …”
TAGS: neurodegenerative disease, mutation gene, French Canadians, research

 

Canada NewsWire (press release)
“CALGARY, Oct. 2, 2018 /CNW/ – Sundial Growers Inc. (Sundial) and the University of Saskatchewan (U of S) have signed a three-year memorandum …”
TAGS: cannabis, clinical research, collaborative research

 

ThePeterboroughExaminer.com
“Through the HRC, Research Canada engages elected officials, policy-makers, and key industry stakeholders to advocate for long-term, sustainable …”
TAGS: Parliamentary Health Research Caucus, Kim Rudd

 

Tbnewswatch.com
“THUNDER BAY – In 2005, Margaret Hajdinjak lost her son to suicide. Shortly before his death, he went to the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences ..”
TAGS: mental health, awareness walk, stigma

 

The Sudbury Star
“Researchers will no longer have to leave Northern Ontario to study the region’s patients and their needs. That’s because Health Sciences North …”
TAGS: health data centre, ICES North, Northern Ontario

 

University Affairs
“Over the summer, the federal minister of science and sport, Kirsty Duncan, met with U.K.’s Advance HE, the organization that administers the Athena …”
TAGS: Athena SWAN, consultations, Kirsty Duncan, EDI in research

 

National Post
“This article was originally published on The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic …”
TAGS: NAFTA, USMCA, trade negotiations

 

The Globe and Mail
“Such work has garnered Dr. Drucker, a professor at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital, prime recognition …”
TAGS: Ernest C. Manning Foundation, 2018 Principal Award, Dr. Daniel Drucker, endocrinologist

 

Canada NewsWire (press release)
“”With appropriate treatment options available, pediatric patients and their caregivers can manage Type 1 diabetes effectively,” says Brian Hilberdink, …”
TAGS: pediatric diabetes, treatment, Health Canada approval

 

Radio Canada International (en)
“… that they were once exposed to or know of,” says Dr. Mona Sidhu, a geriatrician with the Hamilton Health Sciences group of hospitals in Ontario.”
TAGS: cannabis, seniors, mental health

 

Globalnews.ca
“The effectiveness of cannabis to treat dementia will be studied at the … Dementia was chosen by the university as one area of focus for clinical studies …”
TAGS: dementia, treatment, cannabis, research