Lawson Health Research Institute

Type: Company

Name: Lawson Health Research Institute

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 1 reports

McMaster hopes to stabilize supply of medical isotopes

McMaster University is part of a big step toward stabilizing the supply of medical isotopes used for cancer treatment and diagnostic imaging.The supply is vulnerable to serious shortages because the isotopes are being produced at a small number of aging ... [Published Hamilton Spectator - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: Isotope, Cancer, Lawson Health Research Institute, Clinical trials

First reported Jun 09 2013 - Updated Jun 10 2013 - 2 reports

Canadian Solution to Medical-Isotope Crisis Demonstrates that Cities Could Produce their own Medical Isotopes

Canada NewsWireVANCOUVER, June 9, 2013VANCOUVERThe team announced the successful ramp-up of its technology to regularly produce enough of the critical Tc-99m isotope to supply an urban area the size of VancouverPaul SchafferEach year, tens of millions ... [Published Digital Journal - Jun 09 2013]

Entities: Isotopes, Isotope, Cancer, Canada

First reported Jun 10 2013 - Updated Jun 10 2013 - 1 reports

Smartphone shrink

BACK in 2011, an app for Apple devices was launched with what seemed like an outrageous claim — it could accurately reveal which side of a person's brain is most active when processing language. All you had to do was listen to two different syllables ... [Published Yahoo! Singapore - Jun 10 2013]

Entities: Smartphone, Bipolar Disorder, Lawson Health Research Institute

First reported May 28 2013 - Updated May 28 2013 - 1 reports

Visiting scientist presents PET/MRI breakthroughs

Posted by UNB on 5/28/13 • Categorized as myUNB,UNB FrederictonDr. Frank Prato will be giving a public lecture at UNB Fredericton on recent MRI breakthroughs on Monday, June 3 at 6:30 p.m. at the Wu Conference Centre.Professor Prato will present the new ... [Published University of New Brunswick - May 28 2013]

Entities: Positron Emission Tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Biophysics, Frank Portman, Medical Imaging

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"Getting it into clinical trials is what we do well" said Valliant. "That's our strength."

McMaster hopes to stabilize supply of medical isotopes [Published Hamilton Spectator - Jun 18 2013]

"Since there is a safer alternative, azithromycin, clinicians may opt to prescribe azithromycin in patients who require a macrolide antibiotic ... and are on a statin" says Etminan, who is also with the faculty of medicine at the University of British Columbia

Study shows commonly prescribed statin drugs and some antibiotics can interact [Published CJAD 800 - Jun 17 2013]

"We found that the results from the app were as reliable as those of controlled laboratory tests. This means that smartphones can be used as a tool for psychological testing, opening up a wealth of exciting new possibilities" researcher Josef Bless, a doctoral student in psychology at Norway's University of Bergen, said in a statement released in April

Smartphone shrink [Published Yahoo! Singapore - Jun 10 2013]

...being achieved by our government's investments in jobs and science," said Wai Young Member of Parliament for Vancouver South, on behalf of Canada's "The BC Cancer Agency is very proud of our team's time, effort, and use of specialized research expertise to make it possible to produce large quantities of Tc-99m with medical-cyclotron technology" said Dr. Max Coppes

Canadian Solution to Medical-Isotope Crisis Demonstrates that Cities Could Produce their own Medi ... [Published Digital Journal - Jun 09 2013]

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