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- 2/4/2013
Montreal Heart Institute chosen to be MitraClip reference centre
MONTREAL | The Montreal Heart Institute has been designated as a Center of Excellence by Abbott Vascular for the percutaneous treatment of mitral valve failure with its MitraClip system. - 2/4/2013
London Health Sciences now national training centre for robotic surgery
LONDON, ONT. | London Health Sciences Centre has been selected by Intuitive Surgical as the exclusive training centre for robotic surgery in Canada. Intuitive is the manufacturer of what it terms the world's most sophisticated and widely used surgical robot, the da Vinci Surgical System. - 2/4/2013
Hepatitis C survey prompts call for all boomers to get tested
The Canadian Liver Foundation is urging general practitioners to immediately begin recommending a one-time blood test for all adults born between 1945 and 1975. - 2/4/2013
Healthcare vendor credentialing program introduced by HSCN
The Healthcare Supply Chain Network (HSCN) has announced a program for vendor credentialing developed around the HSCN National Standard for Vendor Credentialing in Canada. - 2/4/2013
Drew Barrymore: I stalked nurses for parenting tips
Drew Barrymore "psycho-stalked" nurses for parenting tips when she first became a mother. - 2/4/2013
Breakthrough for Saudi women: they can soon work in retail pharmacies
But retailers that employ both women and men must erect barriers to separate sexes while they work. - 2/4/2013
Book excerpt: A physician’s pilgrimage to joy in France
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. - 2/4/2013
Artificial pancreas may be way to treat type 1 diabetes, Montreal trial shows
MONTREAL | Researchers at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM), led by endocrinologist Dr. Rémi Rabasa-Lhoret, have conducted a trial comparing a dual-hormone artificial pancreas with conventional diabetes treatment using an insulin pump. - 2/4/2013
Apprilon: new once-daily oral therapy for rosacea
Apprilon, marketed in the United States for several years under the brand name Oracea, is indicated for the treatment of inflammatory lesions of rosacea in adults. - 2/3/2013
Public can now see the dirt on clinics failing inspections
An Ottawa doctor ran a dirty, dangerous clinic that potentially put patients at risk—information made public under a new bylaw allowing the provincial watchdog to release information on Out-of-Hospital clinics. - 2/3/2013
Canadian spearheads research group to study single-gene diseases
Global collaboration said to be first step to realizing promise of personalized medicine