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- 9/19/2012
Toronto doctor fighting college over 1978 sex allegation
TORONTO | A pediatrician has been hit with another accusation of sexual assault—his third in recent years. - 9/18/2012
Global Alzheimer’s efforts shift from cure to prevention
LONDON, U.K. | While the cause and progression of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) are not fully understood, increasing evidence indicates the first chemical changes in the brain happen as many as 20 years before symptoms of dementia are exhibited. - 9/18/2012
Quebec to reduce pharmacist wage gap
- 9/18/2012
New bariatric tilt table created in collaboration with hospital
NORWICH, U.K. | Working in collaboration with the Colman NHS Hospital in Norwich, British treatment couch manufacturer Plinth 2000 has developed what it calls an entirely new bariatric tilt table. - 9/18/2012
Good intentions and bad ideas for saving health dollars in Ontario
Following the loss of a legislative seat that his party held for more than 20 years, Ontario Conservative leader Tim Hudak needed something and he needed it fast. It had to be big and bold. Hudak, taking inspiration from the RIM launch of the Playbook, rushed out with a promise to eliminate $800 million in what he called wasteful spending on a duplicative healthcare administration. Like the Playbook, the promising parts were lost in the naïve and untested aspects of what was proposed. - 9/18/2012
Collaborative project aims to connect patients with their information
TORONTO | The Connected Health and Wellness Project (CHWP) will be a people-centred and technology-enabled system making it possible for patients to keep health information from different hospitals or clinics in one place, and letting them decide who they trust to see that information. - 9/18/2012
Laval hospital first to implant new scaffold outside trials
LAVAL, QUE. _ The hemodynamics team at the Hôpital de la Cité-de-la-Santé of the Centre de santé et de services sociaux de Laval has implanted the first bioresorbable coronary drug-eluting vascular scaffold in Canada. - 9/18/2012
App being built to aid chronic heart, lung and kidney disease
VANCOUVER | The Centre of Excellence for the Prevention of Organ Failure (PROOF Centre) and IO Informatics are partnering to develop new tools for clinicians to address chronic heart, lung and kidney disease.