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Journalist Marcia Kaye received the 2009 sanofi pasteur Medal for Excellence in Health Research Journalism at a ceremony in Science North’s spectacular Inco Cavern on May 23 before the Canadian Science Writers’ Association Awards Banquet. In presenting the award and $2,500 bursary, Eileen Macallum, Associate Vice President Quality Operations congratulated Kaye for her article, “The Truth About...
The breeze was warm, the Yukon River was thawing and the evening sun was radiant as Journalist Mark Witten accepted his sanofi pasteur Medal for Excellence in Health Journalism.Mark Witten receives sanofi pasteur Medal for Excellence in Health Journalism in Whitehorse
The breeze was warm, the Yukon River was thawing and the evening sun was radiant as Journalist Mark Witten accepted his sanofi...
University Affairs/Affaires universitaires, February 2005
1 May 2006
How the drive to understand a close friend’s death may lead to one of Canada’s greatest medical discoveries of all time
Queen’s University, 1975. Professor Michael Axelrad is dying. He has ankylosing spondylitis, a chronic inflammation of the spine, which has caused deposits of a mysterious substance called amyloid throughout his body. Ironically, the tough matted fibres of amyloid are Dr....
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A New Age
Genetic Explosion: The science fiction of a spielberg film might be more scary but real science is just as awesome. Consider cloning, robo-rats and the 'double whammy' of gene therapy experiments at the neuro
Neural Sell: The search for a 'buy button' inside the skull fuels the debate about neuro-marketing
Head Trauma: A team at the neuro is trying to understand the...
When Dr. Lori West joined Sick Kids in 1987, the hospital didn’t do infant heart transplants. Donor matches were so hard to come by that the babies would die waiting. Now she’s the medical director of a thriving in-house program, and her revolutionary innovations have saved dozens of lives around the world.
The day Christine Delguidice walked into Credit Valley Hospital for a routine ultrasound...
