International Business

BURLINGTON, ONT. | UPS has expanded its global healthcare distribution network in North America, including its facility in Burlington, Ont. The company has 11 dedicated healthcare facilities in Canada, including three on its Burlington site.

TEL AVIV | Israel Brain Technologies (IBT) is seeking applicants for its $1-million Global B.R.A.I.N. Prize competition. The prize is an international R&D award to be granted to an individual, group or organization for a recent breakthrough in the field of brain technology.

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.’ ”

When Dr. Bobbi French left her career behind and moved to France with her husband Neil to begin a new life, she started a blog about her experiences that has now become a book. Part of her adventure involved learning the local language . . . sort of, as she describes in this excerpt.

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.