TORONTO – The blood-brain barrier – a selectively permeable capillary wall that bars circulating blood and extracellular fluid from entering the central nervous system – performs a critical function in preventing blood-borne pathogens from entering the central nervous system. But it also effectively resists the delivery of lifesaving drug therapies to the brain, requiring higher doses of dangerous chemotherapy drugs, for example, to treat conditions such as brain tumours.
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WATERLOO, Ont. – The University of Waterloo’s startup incubator, Velocity, will look to raise more than $1 million for an investment fund slated to launch in March, with money going to fund the new companies.
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SURREY, BC – Heuro Canada, a provider of neurological health solutions, is launching a non-invasive treatment program at its newly opened Neurotherapy Montreal, Canada’s first clinic to feature the highly anticipated PoNS neurotechnology from U.S.-based Helius Medical Technologies.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Based on its recent analysis of the North American clinical documentation improvement (CDI) market, Frost & Sullivan has recognized 3M Health Information Systems with the 2018 North American Technology Leadership Award for its 3M™ 360 Encompass System. It was one of the first computer-assisted coding (CAC) products in the market and the first to combine coding, CDI, and quality metrics into a single unified platform.
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OTTAWA – Physicians at the Shirley E. Greenberg Women’s Health Centre, at The Ottawa Hospital, created the 3D model of a uterus, as part of a surgical plan to remove 50 fibroid tumours. They believe it’s the first time 3D modeling has been used to help plan a gynecological surgery.
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SUDBURY, Ont. – Health Sciences North is passing on plaster and introducing patients to the most cutting edge approach available to creating prosthetic and orthotic devices, a first for Sudbury and Northeastern Ontario. As a result, “What used to take two hours, now takes twenty minutes. Wait times for new patients have been cut in half,” says Kristin Schafer, a certified prosthetist at HSN.
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VANCOUVER – An anonymous donor has given $18.35 million to the B.C. Cancer Foundation. Moreover, the individual has given the foundation a total of $29 million over their lifetime, including the latest amount. That makes it a record in individual lifetime giving to the foundation.
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OTTAWA – Joule, a Canadian Medical Association (CMA) subsidiary, has announced the recipients for its annual Innovation grants. This year marks the highest value Innovation grants to date: recipients will share $200,000 in flexible funding to develop or expand a project that affects how physicians work and the care their patients receive.
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Your patient is recovering from an opioid addiction and leaves the treatment centre. He or she is not expected to return for a number of weeks, so how do you monitor their progress?
TryCycle Data Systems (www.trycycledata.com) establishes a simple channel for opioid-addicted patients and their practitioners between appointments. “It’s a digital tether between the practitioner and the patient after they leave the office,” said John MacBeth, CEO.
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TORONTO – In partnership with the University of Toronto, MaRS is expanding its footprint to a new innovation centre currently under construction on the lakeshore. The 400,000-square-foot Waterfront Innovation Centre is planned to open in 2021 with space for around 3,000 tech workers.
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