News by subject: HEALTH

Curium, a world leader in nuclear medicine, announced today that in partnership with its exclusive distributor SYN Innovation Laboratories in Greece, the first patients in Greece have been injected with PYLCLARI® (INN: Piflufolastat (18F) also known...

Ski Vermont announces the return of its popular Fifth Grade Passport Program for the 2023-2024 ski season. The Passport program provides access to 20 alpine ski areas and 24 cross country areas with more than 90 days of skiing and riding for any...

Dr. Meivys Garcia, Dr. Marta Wais, and Dr. Crystal Chan, co-owners of Markham Fertility Centre (MFC) proudly announce that Mark Evans, one of the top healthcare directors in the country in assisted reproduction, will be joining MFC as its Managing...

Building on years of clinical equality advocacy, FCB Health New York, an IPG Health Company, created EQL Band ? an innovative prototype for the world's first smartwatch band that uses sound smart technology to accurately hear all heartbeats equally,...

PharmAla Biotech Holdings Inc. ("PharmAla") , a Canadian biotechnology company dedicated to the research and development of clinical-grade LaNeotm MDMA and novel MDXX compounds, and Filament Health Corp. (NEO:FH) ("Filament"), a clinical-stage...

DiagnaMed Holdings Corp. ("DiagnaMed" or the "Company") , a generative artificial intelligence healthcare company, is pleased to announce it has been accepted into the Southern Ontario Pharmaceutical & Health Innovation Ecosystem ("SOPHIE") Program...

Qu Biologics Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing Site Specific Immunomodulators (SSIs), a novel platform of immunotherapies designed to restore innate immune function, is pleased to announce that its Phase 2 clinical trial in...

Salona Global Medical Device Corporation (the ???"Company") , soon to be renamed Evome Medical Technologies Inc., announced its attendance at Medica 2023 which is held annually in Dusseldorf, Germany. Being one of the premier events in the medical...

IntelGenx Corp.  (the "Company" or "IntelGenx") today announced that the Swedish Medical Products Agency ("MPA"), the Swedish Ethical Review Authority, and the Regional Biobank Centre have approved the planned clinical study to investigate the use...

Grassroots projects make communities better. Now, 22 of them in Ontario and B.C. have received funding thanks to RTOERO's annual community grants campaign.  Since 1968, RTOERO has been a voice for teachers, school and board administrators,...

MADD Canada's School Program is back in Prince Edward Island to deliver its life-saving sober driving message to students, with generous support from Prince Edward Island Liquor Control Commission (PEI Liquor). MADD Canada's School Program is...

London, UK ? November 9, 2023 ? OPEN Health, a preeminent global provider of consulting, HEOR and market access, patient engagement, and scientific and creative communications services, will be presenting innovative research at the upcoming ISPOR...

PharmAla Biotech Holdings Inc. ("PharmAla") , the University of Calgary ("UC"), and Heroic Hearts Canada ("HHC", and collectively, the "Parties") are pleased to announce that they have completed a Letter of Intent ("LOI"), and received initial Ethics...

LifeLabs is honoured to have welcomed the Honourable Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario, to our state-of-the-art medical diagnostic laboratory. Today's visit marks an important recognition of our long-lasting partnership with the Ontario government,...

Canada's healthcare system is facing critical challenges, putting the health and safety of Canadians at risk. While a response to the current crisis is urgent, there are also opportunities to reinforce a strong foundation for the future of the...

LifeLabs is pleased to announce its partnership with LifestyleRx to offer Canadians greater support in managing their health with prediabetes and Type 2 diabetes. Canada has a growing diabetes population with currently 1 in 3 Canadians living with...

November 7, 2023 Total investment from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation reaches USD 60 million, accelerating expansion of new AI-guided ultrasound capabilities on Philips Lumify Handheld UltrasoundInnovation helps address worldwide shortage of...

PharmAla Biotech Holdings Inc. ("PharmAla" or the "Company") , a biotechnology company focused on the research, development, and manufacturing of novel MDXX class molecules (including MDMA), is pleased to announce that it has completed its first...

Sobi North America, the North American affiliate of Swedish Orphan Biovitrum AB (Sobi®), today announced that Health Canada has approved DOPTELET® (avatrombopag), an oral thrombopoietin receptor agonist (TPO-RA), for the treatment of...

The Global Health Exhibition, held from October 29 to October 31, 2023, proved an outstanding success for the King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (KFSH&RC). As a Strategic Healthcare Partner, KFSH&RC showcased groundbreaking...

Revive Therapeutics Ltd. ("Revive" or the "Company") , a specialty life sciences company focused on the research and development of therapeutics for medical needs and rare disorders, newly-formed subsidiary, Revive Diagnostics Inc., today announced...

ExCellThera Inc. (ExCellThera), a world leader in blood stem cell expansion and fitness, announced today several UM171 presentations, including an oral session on new data from Phase 2 studies of investigational UM171 cell therapy in high-risk blood...

Today, Solutions for Kids in Pain (SKIP) launched its new project to share solutions for the effective, safe, and equitable medical use of opioids to address short and long-term pain in youth. Funded by Health Canada's Substance Use and Addictions...

The Global Virus Network (GVN) today announced the appointment of Sten Vermund, MD, PhD, as President of the GVN. Dr. Vermund is the Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health, former Dean of the Yale School of Public Health (2017-2022) and serves...

Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. , a biopharmaceutical company developing and delivering novel therapies for the management of central nervous system (CNS) disorders, today announced it is joining advocacy organizations around the world to help raise...

November 2, 2023 Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Farnborough, UK ? Royal Philips , a global leader in health technology and County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust (CDDFT), one of the largest integrated care providers in England, today...

Dynacare, a Labcorp subsidiary and one of Canada's leading health and wellness solutions providers, and Diabetes Canada are teaming up once again this November on the #Dynacare4Diabetes campaign to raise awareness of the risk factors of type 2...

NetworkNewsAudio ? Lexaria Bioscience Corp. announces the availability of a broadcast titled, "Can Diabetes, Weight-Loss Drugs Get Even Better?" To hear the AudioPressRelease, please visit: The NetworkNewsAudio News Podcast To view the full...

November is Diabetes Awareness Month and this year, Diabetes Canada is calling on Canadians to show support for people affected by diabetes through the Let's Make Time campaign, inspiring people to learn more about this too-often "invisible"...

November 1, 2023 Reaching 15 million people in the region in 2022 alone [1], the foundation sets out plans to ramp up collaboration with social entrepreneurs Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Nairobi, Kenya ? Philips Foundation, with its...

InterCure Ltd. (dba Canndoc) ("InterCure" or the "Company"), the leading medical cannabis company in Israel and outside of North America, reports today that, further to the Company's press release issued on August 31, 2023, in which the Company...

As businesses continue to cope with inflationary pressures, employers choosing to offer higher pay in lieu of retirement benefits risk falling behind those already offering those benefits ? and they could be at odds with what Canadian workers want,...

King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (KFSH&RC) has achieved a significant milestone by successfully conducting liquid biopsies on patients spanning various age groups. This innovative approach offers a safer alternative to conventional...

Impulse Dynamics, a global medical device company dedicated to improving the lives of people with heart failure (HF), announced today it has received whole-body MRI-conditional approval for the Optimizer® Smart Mini system from the United States Food...

In a new step that offers cancer patients a glimmer of hope and a lifeline, the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (KFSH&RC) celebrated its success in treating the 100th patient with lymphoid leukemia using Chimeric Antigen Receptor...

For the past four decades, the Cyclotron and Radiopharmaceuticals Department at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (KFSH&RC) has been addressing the needs of local and regional medical centers for radiopharmaceuticals used in...

In one of her first official events as MADD Canada's new National President, long-time Winnipeg resident Tanya Hansen Pratt will launch the 2023 Project Red Ribbon campaign to prevent impaired driving on November 1 at RCMP Headquarters. The holiday...

Aptose Biosciences Inc. ("Aptose" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: APTO, TSX:...

Healthcare providers are facing a continuous increase in the demand for healthcare services, necessitating a redirection of efforts towards improving the operational efficiency of healthcare institutions. In response to this challenge that healthcare...

King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (KFSH&RC) is presenting its pioneering journey and prospects in space biomedical research and its role in enhancing human health at the Global Health Exhibition, where KFSH&RC is also participating...

In a historic achievement, the Organ Transplant Center of Excellence team at King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (KFSH&RC) has successfully performed the world's first fully robotic living donor liver transplant in the Kingdom of Saudi...

Lifeist Wellness Inc. ("Lifeist" or the "Company") , a health-tech company that leverages advancements in science and technology to build breakthrough companies that transform human wellness, today reported its financial results for the three...

Shanghai Junshi Biosciences Co., Ltd ("Junshi Biosciences," HKEX: 1877; SSE: 688180), a leading innovation-driven biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel therapies, announced the presentation...

LifeLabs, Canada's leading provider of medical diagnostic services, and the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) are excited to announce their collaboration on the latest chapter of a groundbreaking Open Education Pathology Textbook, a...

At the 2023 Global Health Exhibition in Riyadh, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (KFSH&RC) is presenting its advanced approach to elevating the patient treatment journey. By harnessing state-of-the-art digital healthcare solutions,...

Aptose Biosciences Inc. , a clinical-stage precision oncology company developing highly differentiated oral targeted agents to treat hematologic malignancies, will report financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2023, on Thursday,...

October 26, 2023 Safety of Philips' iFR in the guidance of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for heart disease demonstrated in late-breaking science at TCT 2023 highlighting patient-level outcomes analysis of 42,000 patients from the...

Biogen Inc. reported new Phase 1b clinical data from the study of...

At a recent BioAlberta event in Edmonton, the Alberta Cancer Foundation announced a major boost for the province's cellular therapy program ? a revolutionary treatment for cancer that has the potential to dramatically improve survival rates for...

Groupe LSL Pharma Inc. ? ("the Company" or "LSL Pharma Group"), a Canadian integrated pharmaceutical company, announces today that its subsidiary LSL Laboratory ("LSL") has received new orders for natural health products. Unless otherwise specified,...