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The man leading the fight against salt

Salt. It seems so innocuous, but it’s actually the leading cause of high blood pressure in Canada. One in five Canadians have high blood pressure and it is costing the healthcare system $4 billion per...

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An inside view of healthcare

Healthcare is part of the Canadian identity. We take it for granted like the air we breathe. The system just works. Most of the time at least. I had a chance to chat with Dr. William Ghali this week...

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Ensuring a stitch in time for epilepsy patients

Imagine that your actions are suddenly no longer under your control. With little or no warning, an entity takes over your brain and subjects you to repetitive, pointless movements or bizarre behaviours...

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Of Lasers and Eye Surgeons

Leonardo da Vinci once wrote, “The eye is the window of the human body through which it feels its way and enjoys the beauty of the world. Owing to the eye the soul is content to stay in its bodily...

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The road to strategic cancer care

“You have cancer.” Few phrases uttered by a physician can strike such terror into the hearts of patients and their families. But what happens next, after that proverbial bomb has been dropped? As Dr....

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The AAN: Navigating neurologists through murky waters

We live in an era of information overload. As medical knowledge continues to expand exponentially, physicians often find it difficult to keep up with the pace of change. The biggest challenge here is...

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Critical flu symposium coming to Calgary

The flu took flight in 2009, just as my classmates and I embarked on our medical training. It morphed from the sniffles and brief sickness that so many of us had taken for granted, into a true...

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Defending the defenseless – The fight for refugee healthcare

In 2001, a young woman arrived in Ontario, one of many refugee claimants fleeing dire circumstances in Colombia. She was alone, had no money, and did not speak English. And she was pregnant. As she...

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Hacking Health is Here

W21C is hosting Hacking Health at Foothills Hospital from June 13-15 (this weekend). Hacking Health is bringing developers and healthcare professionals to build a tech solution for a healthcare...

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Innovative educational leadership: The legacy of Dr. Wright

Guest post by Dr. Yan Yu.  You don’t need to be a medical student to see what Dr. Bruce Wright has done for University of Calgary’s medical school. After eight productive years as the school’s...

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Calgary surgeon and educator retires, leaving generation of inspired medical...

Guest article by Dr. Yan Yu with Dr. Aravind Ganesh Dr. Morton Doran isn’t your everyday surgeon. Most surgeons pride themselves on their ability to perform finely controlled, precise hand movements....

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Calgary health tech companies presenting at International Competition in Europe

Three Calgary companies and research groups – Orpyx, SnapDx, and MEDi – will present their innovative technologies at the first World Innovation Day, Innovation for Health (WID-I4H) competition in...

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The Road Ahead: Musings with the woman holding the reins of health care...

“You won’t believe this one…” Physicians, nurses, and other health professionals enjoy trading stories about their experiences with interesting patients, eccentric colleagues, and hot innovations. Talk...

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6 Tips for Healthcare Startup Success from Figure 1’s Dr. Landy

Some say that a healthcare startup is the most difficult startup one can do. Doctors are very hard to get a hold of. Patients don’t want to pay for anything. Hospitals move slow. Privacy concerns are...

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Restoring Sense to Medicine – How Can Doctors and Patients “Choose Wisely”?

The Problem of Reflexive Testing and Procedures “Don’t just do something, stand there!” No, I didn’t get that wrong. One of my instructors in medical school (who really was a master at turns of phrase)...

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Stroke treatment shouldn’t hinge on a stroke of luck: The Calgary Stroke Program

It is 10pm on a cold Calgarian Sunday when Mr. Chen*, after a pleasant visit with his daughter, goes to bed. About ten minutes later, his wife finds him agitated in the washroom, his face drooping, his...

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Ebola’s Past Can Inform Our Future: Lessons From its Discoverer

Guest article by Michael Mackley. “There’s no future in infectious disease” – that is what Dr. Peter Piot’s professors told him before he went on to co-discover the Ebola virus in 1976. Dr. Piot spoke...

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Calgary’s CRU Uses Big Data to Drive Clinical Research and Practice

The Hurdles of Modern Clinical Research Some of the most valuable information in medical research comes to us not from the bottom of a test tube but from the aggregate stories of our patients, the...

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TheRounds.ca Harnesses the Collective Intelligence of Canada’s Doctors

A Social Network for Physicians Computer and mobile-based social networks have revolutionized how we interact with each other – not just how we keep up with friends or craft personal relationships, but...

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TheRounds.ca harnesses collective intelligence of Canada’s doctors

A Social Network for Physicians Computer and mobile-based social networks have revolutionized how we interact with each other – not just how we keep up with friends or craft personal relationships, but...

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