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2012 Research Successes Archive
2012-12-07 CAHO CCR ARTIC Project empowers nurse champions maximizing Emergency Department resourcesThe CAHO community includes some of the best and brightest working on the development and implementation of innovative research to improve the quality of patient care and benefit the entire health care system.
2012-12-07 CAHO MOVE ON ARTIC Project seen as way forward at Health AchieveHealth leaders and professionals from Ontario, across Canada and globally, gathered in Toronto at the 2012 Health Achieve Conference in early November to ‘inspire ideas and innovation, build relationships and share best practices’.
2012-12-07 ASP Educational Event Builds Foundation for Future SuccessPhysicians and pharmacists from the CAHO community gathered recently in Toronto for an educational event developed by the CAHO Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (ASP) in Intensive Care Units (ICU) ARTIC Project.
2012-10-12 Holland Bloorview launches new clinical trial in robotic therapyCerebral palsy is the most common childhood physical disability in Canada, affecting approximately one in every 300 Canadian children. Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital has launched an innovative clinical research study in robotics therapy for children with cerebral palsy.
2012-10-12 St. Joseph’s Pilots Running Therapy Group in Fight Against Depression and AnxietyIs exercising a useful form of treatment for depression and anxiety? A pilot research study out of St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton (SJHH) and McMaster University aims to answer the question in teens and young adults with a running therapy group.
2012-10-12 Clinical trials at KGH assist researchers in finding new allergy vaccineAllergy sufferers could soon be breathing easier as a result of research being conducted at Kingston General Hospital (KGH). That’s the aim of clinical trials led by Dr. Anne Ellis, director of the Allergy Research Unit and Environmental Exposure Unit (EEU) at KGH.
2012-08-14 World-class research lab opens at Hotel DieuThe nuts and bolts of how our bodies walk, run, work, and play will be under scrutiny in a new Queen’s University research laboratory opened at Hotel Dieu Hospital.
2012-08-14 St. Michael’s research team leads development of new model to anticipate disease outbreaks at 2012 OlympicsA research team led by St. Michael’s Hospital’s Dr. Kamran Khan is teaming up with British authorities to anticipate and track the risk for an infectious disease outbreak at the London Olympics.
2012-08-14 Unique Device Offers Potential New Treatment for Prostate CancerEach year about 150,000 men in North America are diagnosed with localized prostate cancer or disease that has not spread beyond the prostate. Sunnybrook researchers hope to help many of these individuals who would be eligible for a promising, new, minimally invasive treatment option called MRI-controlled transurethral ultrasound therapy.
2012-06-01 New form of intellectual disability discoveredResearchers at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) led a study discovering a gene for a new form of intellectual disability, as well as how it likely affects cognitive development by disrupting neuron functioning.