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Paper yields international attention
The Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine will be publishing research findings that led to the development of a smoking cessation...
Date Published | April, 2009 - More.... |
Thunder Bay pioneers HIFU
Scientists at the Thunder Bay Regional Research Institute are taking the first steps toward the introduction of a new...
Date Published | Dec. 15, 2008 - More.... |
Research reveals lack of service for epilepsy patients
A research analysis of epilepsy care in Northern Ontario has revealed that Northerners are...
Date Published | Dec. 15, 2008 - More.... |
Sudbury oversees ambitious
clinical trials programs
The clinical research department at Sudbury Regional Hospital’s Regional Cancer Program has...
Date Published | Dec. 15, 2008 - More.... |
St. Joseph’s Care Group hosts research conference
The research department at St. Joseph’s Care Group (SJCG) in Thunder Bay is inviting applied health researchers.....
Date Published | Dec. 15, 2008 - More.... |
Program develops research expertise
Sudbury’s Joyce Helmer was one of 40 international indigenous scholars selected to attend the recent, inaugural Indigenous Summer Research Institute at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School ...
Date Published | Oct. 1, 2008 - More.... |
Sault nominated for clinical trials award
The Sault Area Hospital’s Algoma District Cancer Program was one of two community oncology practices in Canada nominated for the prestigious American Society of Clinical Oncology’s (ASCO) Clinical ...
Date Published | Jun. 1, 2008 - More.... |
Thunder Bay acquires cutting edge PET-CT device
A state-of-the-art PET-CT scanner acquired in June by the Thunder Bay Regional Research Institute, an arm’s ...
Date Published | Jun. 1, 2008 - More.... |
Wawa patients recruited for colonoscopies
As a family physician practicing at the Wawa Medical Centre, 225 kilometres north of Sault Ste. ...
Date Published | Jun. 1, 2008 - More.... |
Science fair project could lead to new cancer drug
What started out as a high school science fair project examining the breast cancer fighting properties of flaxseed ...
Date Published | Jun. 1, 2008 - More.... |
Laurentian trains health researchers
A unique Laurentian University PhD program in rural and northern health aims to train homegrown health researchers ...
Date Published | Mar. 20, 2008 - More.... |
A perfect place to quit
An inpatient tobacco cessation research program in northwestern Ontario is zeroing in on smokers where they are most likely to be found and most susceptible to intervention counselling...
Date Published | Sept. 20, 2007 - More.... |
Culturally sensitive research proposed
Ethically-conducted research is helping aboriginal people receive better health care, according to the scientific director of the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) - Institute of Aboriginal Peoples’ Health...
Date Published | Sept. 20, 2007 - More.... |
Research conference June 1 & 2
Hundreds of academics and health-care providers will gather in Sault Ste. Marie June 1 and 2 for the Northern Ontario School of Medicine’s (NOSM) second annual Northern Health Research Conference.
Date Published | April 20, 2007 - More.... |
Cardiologist warns against diabetes epidemic
North America is facing an epidemic of diabetes because of our sedentary lifestyle, warns Dr. Michael Farkouh, a cardiologist who specializes in the effects of diabetes on the cardiovascular system.
Date Published | Sept. 20, 2007 - More.... |
Sudbury firm fills niche in clinical trial management
From molecule to marketed product, Barbara Ward knows the satisfaction of seeing investigational medicine in clinical trials evolve into a potentially life-saving treatment.
Date Published | Sept. 20, 2007 - More.... |
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