Managing and preventing obesity in Canadian adults and children
... ... Lau reviews the numerous goals of the guidelines, the k...Canadian study shows bilingualism has protective effect in delaying onset of dementia by four years
... There has been much interest and growing scientific literature examining how lifestyle factors such as physical activity, education and social engagement may help build "cognitive reserve" in later years of life. Cognitive reserve refers to enhanced neural plasticity, compensatory use of alternative brain regions, and enriched brain vasculature, all of which are thought to pro...OPICAN study in seven Canadian cities reveals prescription opioid abuse more prevalent than heroin
... ... Opi...Most Canadian med school grads lack basic surgical skills
... ... The researchers gathered their results from surveys of 123 recent medical scho...Canadian study demonstrates medical induction of labor increases risk of amniotic-fluid embolism
... Amniotic-fluid embolism (AFE) is a rare, but serious and even fatal maternal complication of delivery. While its cause is unknown, it is one of the leading causes of maternal mortality in developed countries, accounting for sev...Health researchers working to improve the lives of the most vulnerable Canadians
.... ...VANCOUVER - The Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Health has announced the recipients of 20 Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) health research grants worth over $14 million to study health disparities among Canada's most vulnerable populations. Minister Clement made the announcement by video presentation during the opening ceremony of the Canadian Public Health Association'...Canadian Blood Services scientist invents potential alternative for high-demand blood product
Toronto, ON Patients suffering from a life-threatening bleeding disorder are closer to having access to a more effective treatment. Alan Lazarus, Canadian Blood Services scientist and adjunct scientist at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, is deciphering how a blood-derived product called IVIg (intravenous immunoglobulin) currently works, and as a result has developed a synthetic replacement prod...First Canadian professorship in melanoma research established
Edmonton, May 16, 2006 The Alberta Cancer Foundation today announced the establishment of Canada's first melanoma research professorship at its Cross Cancer Institute, made possible by a $1 million donation from the family and friends of Mrs. Mary Johnston. ...... The incidence of malignant melanoma is increasing faster than that of any other cancer. It has doubled in the past 30 years, treatmen...$900,000 for first Canadian Chair in Hypertension Prevention and Control
OTTAWA The Canadian Hypertension Society (CHS), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Canada's Research-based Pharmaceutical companies (Rx&D), sanofi-aventis and Blood Pressure Canada (BPC) are announcing today an investment of $900,000 over five years to fund the first Canadian Chair in Hypertension Prevention and Control. Dr. Norm Campbell, MD, FRCPC, from the University of Calg...CIHR launches casebooks about Canadians turning research into action
Improving healthcare for newborn babies at risk; reducing workplace injury and illness; shaping community action plans for early childhood development; and helping Canada's minority communities cope with the Tsunami disaster: these and other Canadian stories about transforming research results into action can be found in two casebooks launched today by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (...Sacking of Canadian Medical Association Journal's editors 'deeply troubling'
The dismissal of two of the Canadian Medical Association Journal's editors seems to be an attempt to deprive the journal of its capacity for investigative journalism, states an editorial in this week's issue of The Lancet....... On Feb 20, 2006, John Hoey and Anne Marie Todkill, the Editor-in-Chief and Senior Deputy Editor, respectively, of the CMAJ were dismissed by the company that manages the...Canadian researchers discover a natural defence mechanism for Alzheimer's disease
A team from the Faculty of Medicine at Universit Laval and the research centre at CHUQ (Centre hospitalier universitaire de Qubec) has discovered a natural defence mechanism that the body deploys to combat nerve cell degeneration observed in persons with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Investigators Alain R. Simard, Denis Soulet, Genevieve Gowing, Jean-Pierre Julien and Serge Rivest describe this major...Short-term survival rates better for US vs. Canadian heart failure patients
Investigators at Yale School of Medicine and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Ontario, Canada, report that elderly heart failure patients hospitalized in the United States have better short-term survival than those in Canada, but lose that advantage over time. ... ... Published in the November 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, the study compared the patterns of care and ou...US patients with heart failure have better short-term survival rates than Canadian patients
CHICAGO Elderly patients with heart failure who are hospitalized in the United States have lower death rates at 30 days than patients hospitalized in Canada for the same illness, but one-year death rates are similar in the U.S. and Canada, according to a study in the November 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals....... The United States and Canada have dif...Pain drives Canadian youth to seek alternative medical treatment
(Kingston, ON) Aching backs and chronic pain are the most common reasons for Canadian adolescents to seek complementary or alternative medical treatment. ......And there's a wide disparity both in where they live and their family income between young people who use alternative treatments and those who don't. ......These are two of the findings from a new Queen's University study into the use...Employed caregivers at risk from current Canadian policies
Changes to Canada's labour and income security policies could help employed caregivers keep their jobs while still taking care of family and friends with chronic health problems....... This recommendation has come out of research recently completed at the University of Alberta that showed that, in 2002, almost 1.5 million Canadians over the age of 45 were in paid employment and caring for an olde...Canadian researchers call for more angiograms
More tests need to be prescribed to save and prolong the lives of Canadians living with coronary artery disease, says a study released today from the University of Alberta. ...... The research shows that the more Alberta physicians prescribe cardiac catheterizations--also know as angiograms--to detect people with coronary artery disease, the more people they are finding who have high-risk blockag...Conflicts pitting doctors vs. patients / kin is #1 issue in medical ethics, Canadian experts say
The biggest issue in medical ethics today is the growing occurrence of conflict between health care providers, their patients and patients' families over treatment options, according to Canadian medical ethicists in a survey published today....... Asked by the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, an international medical ethics think tank, to rank "the top 10 ethical challenges that...Canadian study demonstrates new approach to achieving diabetes control
Hamilton, ON (June 14, 2005) Results of an all-Canadian study announced June 13 at an international diabetes congress demonstrate that patients with type 2 diabetes can safely achieve target blood sugar (glycemic) levels faster and more frequently when insulin glargine (a basal, long-acting insulin) is added to therapy, versus using oral agents alone. In addition to achieving better glycemic co...(Kingston, ON) Canadian youth rank fourth-highest on the obesity scale in a new international study of adolescents from 34 countries, says co-author Dr. Ian Janssen, a professor in Queen's University's School of Physical & Health Education and Department of Community Health & Epidemiology....... And sedentary behaviour like watching television was strongly correlated with being overweight, he...Injury is the leading cause of death among people under age of 45 and the leading cause of potential years of life lost. A new study by Shahzeer Karmali and colleagues in this issue of CMAJ shows aboriginal Canadians are at much higher risk of sustaining severe trauma. ...... This population-based, observational study quantified the impact of injury, both fatal and nonfatal on the Aboriginal comm...