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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. -
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.