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Standing in her kitchen one chilly February morning three years ago, Dr. Bobbi French found herself at a crossroads. Dr. French, an adolescent psychiatrist, was the chief of inpatient services at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax. She had just wound up an intense project involving a complete overhaul of a troubled unit. The work had been part of a year-long contract, and she now had to decide whether to sign on for another year.“I was obviously having some kind of mid-life mayhem, and I think it was just the fact that I wasn’t getting any younger. And I thought, ‘If I don’t do this now, I’ll sign another contract and I will never ever think to do it again. I’ll never have the courage to do it again.’ ”

Global collaboration said to be first step to realizing promise of personalized medicine

Vitamin Shoppe, the second largest, publicly traded vitamin and supplement retailer in the U.S., heads north under the Vitapath banner.

LONDON, U.K. | Six of the world's top translational health research centres, including the Vancouver-based Centre for Drug Research and Development, have announced the formation of a new Global Alliance of Leading Drug Discovery and Development Centres.

As a declining share of global clinical trials threatens the future of health research in Canada, a national collaborative effort is underway to reverse the slide

True to its name, WORLDiscoveries of London, Ontario, is one of the few technology transfer centres in Canada with an actionable international strategy