ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 1/3/2012
Clip use at Montreal Heart Institute is Canadian first
The interventional cardiology team at the Montreal Heart Institute recently conducted the first clinical procedure in Canada using the MitraClip system, which is designed to treat patients suffering from mitral valve failure, a common heart defect. - 1/3/2012
Global effort launched to create inexpensive diagnostic devices
Grand Challenges Canada and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have teamed up for a global effort to discover and develop affordable, easy-to-use tools to help health workers in developing countries rapidly diagnose diseases in rural communities. - 1/3/2012
IRB Services fully accredited for protecting research participants
Institutional Review Board Services is the first fully independent, unaffiliated, Canadian-based research ethics committee to earn accreditation from the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs. - 1/3/2012
Website showcases chiropractic advances by Canadians
The Canadian Chiropractic Research Foundation, a non-profit organization funding chiropractic research projects, has launched a new website with the goal of showcasing the work and achievements of talented Canadian chiropractic researchers. - 1/3/2012
What if...all nurses were utilized to their full potential?
Examination of success models shows that system would hugely benefit from allowing nurses to 'do what they can do' - 1/2/2012
Ontario's public institutions should have global reach
A few years back, Ontario’s McGuinty government used the Speech from the Throne to call for generating cash by leveraging the strengths of our public healthcare system beyond our borders. So if the ORNGE air ambulance service goes global, tells the world about Ontario and makes some money that gets pumped back into our public healthcare system, wouldn’t that be a good thing? - 1/2/2012
CNA: Prime opportunity to map out Canada's health-care future is now
Guiding principles developed with CMA should be instrumental in January premiers' meet