Clinical Solutions

TORONTO – Ventripoint Diagnostics Ltd. is pleased to announce that the company’s proprietary VMS+3.0 whole-heart analysis system has been installed at the Peter Munk Cardiac Center (PMCC) in Toronto. PMCC is the largest cardiac centre in Canada and resides in the University Hospital Network’s (UHN) Toronto General Hospital. Read More

NEWMARKET, Ont. – Patients with heart-rhythm issues called arrhythmias experience palpitations, shortness of breath and fatigue. These patients are usually treated with a procedure called an ablation. However, for some frail, elderly patients who have other conditions, ablation is not a safe option. Read More

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – Amgen Canada Inc. has partnered with patients and healthcare professionals to launch the global pilot of My HeartPath in Canada. My HeartPath is a heart health app which supports and empowers patients during their heart attack recovery. Read More

BRAMPTON, Ont. – Earlier this month, during Mental Illness Awareness Week, the William Osler Health System officially opened its Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) Clinic. rTMS is a safe, non-invasive treatment that uses a magnetic field to stimulate nerve cells in the brain that are involved in controlling emotions. Read More

MONTREAL – A new app that tracks patients’ changing moods is about to be rolled out to help family doctors in CIUSSS West-Central Montreal provide better treatment for anxiety and depression. Tung Tran (pictured), director of the CIUSSS’s Mental Health and Addiction Program, says the app is aimed mainly at family physicians, who have often been called upon to treat climbing rates of anxiety and depression since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More

MONTREAL – IBM Canada is working with Diabetic Children’s Foundation (aka ‘Fred’) in Quebec to support children living with diabetes amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The AI-powered virtual agent is available in Quebec and across Canada 24-hours per day in both French and English to answer questions related to diabetes care, parent support, school concerns, and issues pertaining to COVID-19. Read More

VICTORIA, BC – During a video taken May 30, 2019, 71-year-old retired firefighter Dan Kelly rises from a seated position, performs a little happy dance, and flashes the camera a satisfied grin. What is not immediately apparent is that only one hour prior to the images being captured, Kelly was in a Royal Jubilee Hospital operating room with Victoria orthopedic surgeon Dr. Duncan Jacks (pictured) and anaesthetist Dr. Jacques Smit, receiving his second hip replacement surgery in four and a half months. Read More

MONTREAL – A cardiologist at the Sacre-Coeur Hospital has become the first in Canada to use a new microcatheter, called Mamba, that improves the removal of plaques from coronary arteries. Boston Scientific, the producer of the device, approached Montreal cardiologist Raja Hatem (pictured) to perform this Canadian first. Dr. Hatem has a subspecialty in high-risk procedures and has already worked with the Mamba tools in Texas. Read More

HALIFAX – The QEII Health Sciences Centre is getting ready to open Atlantic Canada’s first hybrid operating room. The hybrid OR will be located on the fifth floor of the Halifax Infirmary (HI) site of the QEII Health Sciences Centre and will feature state-of-the-art medical imaging equipment that will allow for advanced surgical procedures. Read More