NEWMARKET, Ont. – Patients suffering from lightheadedness, shortness of breath, fatigue, weakness, fainting or near-fainting spells – often a result of a heart rate that is too slow – may now have some freedom from their condition, thanks to a new procedure being performed at Southlake Regional Health Centre. The Newmarket-based hospital recently became one of a select few in Canada to implant a revolutionary miniature pacemaker that is smaller than a AAA battery.
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CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Clinic has announced its 9th annual list of Top 10 Medical Innovations that are likely to have major impact on improving patient care. The list for 2015 includes a mobile stroke ambulance, fast, painless blood-testing, and a novel intra-operative radiation approach for breast cancer.
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REDMOND, Wash. – Microsoft has announced a new platform called Microsoft Health. Microsoft Health is designed to give people a holistic picture of their health, fitness, nutrition and work life to help them live healthier and achieve more.
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WATERLOO, Ont. – The Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology at the University of Waterloo is pleased to host Suneet Singh Tuli (pictured), founder and CEO of DataWind Inc., as guest speaker on November 11. The session will be held at the university’s Davis Centre.
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OTTAWA – A team at Bruyère’s Saint-Vincent Hospital is adapting conventional technology to help severely disabled patients communicate and maintain some independence.
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Oct 11, 2020. It’s 5:45 am. My alarm goes off and I wish it didn’t. It has been harder to wake up despite my going to bed earlier than usual. I reach out for my phone to upload the data from my AirSyncPillow 3000, which I purchased two weeks ago as recommended by Dr. Johns.
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TORONTO – Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre is set to revolutionize brain sciences treatment and research in Canada with a state-of-the-art Brain Sciences Centre, the first of its kind in Canada, thanks to a lead gift of $20 million from the Hurvitz Family Foundation.
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The primary challenge facing the healthcare system today is obvious: we’re seeing an increase in demand for care due to an aging population, but at the same time there’s a decline in funding. In short, we have to do more with less. We need to figure out ways to do things differently, because right now there’s an “expectation gap” between the levels of quality and value we expect versus what the system can actually provide.
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TORONTO – The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation has announced four new investments in its campaign to conquer cancer through personalized medicine. “We are announcing a key milestone in our five-year, Billion Dollar Challenge to lead the way in Personalized Cancer Medicine with an unprecedented investment in people, purpose-built space and technology,” said Paul Alofs (pictured), President & CEO of The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation.
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health convened its second major meeting of 2014 last weekend, bringing together more than 250 international leaders to collaborate on the development of innovative solutions to accelerate sharing of genomic and clinical data. At their plenary meeting, held in San Diego, Alliance members shared progress to date and discussed next steps for the effort.
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