by Stacey Johnson | Dec 14, 2018
“At any given time, close to 1,000 Canadian patients are waiting for a stem cell transplant,” says Dr. Dana Devine, Chief Medical and Scientific Officer of the Canadian Blood Services. That is despite the fact Canadian Blood Services belongs to an international...
by Stacey Johnson | Oct 26, 2018
It’s heartbreaking to watch this February 2018 video of Jonathan Pitre, the Canadian teen with epidermolysis bullosa (EB), who advocated for patients and fought so hard to be rid of his disease, and sadly died two months after the video below was published. He was the...
by Jovana Drinjakovic | Oct 17, 2018
Scientists have enlisted the gene editing tool CRISPR in a hunt for cancer causing mutations, releasing into the open valuable data that could help doctors better advise their patients. A new study lists almost 4,000 individual “misspellings,” or variants, in the...
by Stacey Johnson | Oct 5, 2018
The 10 percent rule usually works fairly well when estimating disease prevalence in Canada compared to the equivalent in the U.S. Our population is about 10 percent the size of the U.S. so it makes sense that we match up, to an equivalent degree, on health issues,...
by Jovana Drinjakovic | Aug 29, 2018
Flying a small plane may be easy to learn. Flying a jumbo jet safely, with hundreds of people’s lives in your hands, takes decades of training and testing. Cell and gene therapy today is a bit like a rookie pilot: it will still be some time of carefully monitored...
by Carmen Wong | Aug 23, 2018
Artificial intelligence (AI). Machine learning. To most people, these are just buzzwords and synonymous. Whether or not we fully understand what both are, they are slowly integrating into our everyday lives. Virtual assistants such as Siri? AI is at work. The...
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