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- 6/12/2012
Saint Elizabeth awards inaugural Michael Decter Scholarship
MARKHAM, ONT. _ Community care provider Saint Elizabeth has announced the first recipient of a new scholarship awarded to graduate students aspiring to be Canada’s future healthcare leaders. - 6/12/2012
B.C. company receives NRC funding for HIV/AIDS treatment
Vancouver-based iCo Therapeutics, a drug reprofiling company, has been awarded a $1.1 million non-repayable financial contribution from the National Research Council of Canada to support iCo’s Oral Amphotericin B (Amp B) delivery system as novel treatment for patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). - 6/12/2012
St. John's Rehab and Sunnybrook approve merger agreement
TORONTO _ St. John’s Rehab Hospital and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre have agreed to merge voluntarily into a single, comprehensive healthcare provider. - 6/12/2012
A new seasonal affective disorder: baseball blues
A variant of bipolar illness with an addictive component, expect to see patients with this condition between April and October - 6/12/2012
Remote dispensing firm bankrupt
Just a year after the Ontario government gave the green light to remote dispensing machines, the fate of the controversial technology is up in the air with the bankruptcy of PharmaTrust. - 6/12/2012
NEW DRUGS: Potassium channel blocker improves walking in MS
FAMPYRA (fampridine 10 mg sustained-release tablets), Biogen Idec. Also known as 4-aminopyridine or dalfampridine.