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- 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. - 2/4/2013
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
Movember funds support prostate cancer researchers
TORONTO | Prostate Cancer Canada has announced the four recipients of the Rising Star in Prostate Cancer Research program. Funding for the program is provided through the Movember fund-raising initiative. - 2/4/2013
Urban Aboriginals get more SAD than rural ones: study
TORONTO | When University of Toronto researcher Dr. Benita Tam (PhD) started checking into Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), she expected that Aboriginals in rural and urban regions would react similarly to cold weather. - 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
Dreaming of chucking it all and moving to France? Meet a doctor who did it
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.’ ” - 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.