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April 6, 2022
TORONTO – The Ontario Ministry of Health announced a $5 million “planning grant” to assess the feasibility and plan construction in downtown Toronto of Ontario’s first proton radiation therapy centre. Proton radiation therapy is considered the gold standard for treatment of difficult-to-treat cancers such as brain and soft tissue cancers in children, and head and neck or base-of-skull tumors in adults.
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April 6, 2022
HALIFAX – Togetherall, an online mental health support platform, is now available in French and free to all Nova Scotians aged 16 and up through a partnership between Nova Scotia Health, the Office of Addictions and Mental Health, the Department of Advanced Education and IWK Health.
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March 23, 2022
KITCHENER, Ont. – Intellijoint HIP surgical navigation is now available at Humber River Hospital for orthopaedic surgeons. It’s Intellijoint Surgical’s first sale of its flagship product, Intellijoint HIP, to a public hospital in Canada.
Intellijoint Surgical was founded in 2010 and is based in Kitchener, where it develops and commercializes surgical planning and navigation solutions for total hip and knee replacement surgeries.
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February 28, 2022
MONTREAL – The McGill University Health Centre thoracic surgery teams and the Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux de l’Outaouais (CISSSO) are proud to be selected as the 2021 winner in the Innovative Clinical Team category at the Gala des Prix TI en santé et services sociaux. The award recognizes unique and creative projects aimed at improving the patient and clinician experience, as well as increasing productivity and efficiency in the healthcare network. Read More
December 8, 2021
LONDON, Ont. – Researchers at Lawson Health Research Institute and Western University had a leading role in a new global study that will change the way surgeons repair leaky valves in the heart. It’s one of the most common heart valve conditions, affecting around two per cent of the population, where many patients don’t even realize they have a leaky valve and are asymptomatic, often presenting to doctors once they are late stage into the disease.
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December 8, 2021
BRAMPTON, Ont. – Medtronic Canada announced it has received a Health Canada licence for the Hugo robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) system for use in urologic and gynecologic laparoscopic surgical procedures, which make up about half of all robotic procedures performed today.
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November 4, 2021
VoxNeuro is ready to change the way brain health is managed and treated across the globe. Today’s cognitive assessments are reliant on subjective measures like patient self-reporting and observed behaviour, opening the door for faulty results. The types of brain health assessments using objective measures that are available today, such as MRI or CT, only scan for structural issues (e.g. lesions in brain tissue, brain bleeds, or damage to the skull) and cannot provide an understanding of a brain’s cognitive health. Read More
August 11, 2021
BRAMPTON, Ont. – William Osler Health System has partnered with SeamlessMD, a Digital Patient Engagement platform, to help improve patient safety, quality and outcomes for surgery patients. This platform is a great addition for patients as Osler carefully and gradually resumes normal operations, including some priority non-urgent surgeries and procedures across its three hospital sites.
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July 21, 2021
SUDBURY, Ont. – A new robotic tool is allowing surgeons at Health Sciences North to better tailor knee replacements to their patients’ needs, while also reducing the amount of discomfort they experience afterwards. The ROSA Knee device, manufactured by Zimmer Biomet, has been in place at the hospital for a few weeks now, and is one of just three to be employed in all of Canada.
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July 21, 2021
CALGARY – Kent Imaging has announced Health Canada’s approval for SnapshotNIR V3.0 – now available for shipping in both official languages. This upgrade provides significant feature enhancements to the imaging technology that advances tissue assessment in acute and chronic wounds.
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