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The Medicine 2.0 Congress took place Sept 17-18. This conference in general talked about the state of eHealth in general. The presentation was held at MaRS and the topic was on consumer empowerment, patient-physician relationship and sociotechnical issues.

The Medicine 2.0 Congress took place Sept 17-18. This conference in general talked about the state of eHealth in general. The presentation was held at MaRS and the topic was on consumer empowerment, patient-physician relationship and sociotechnical issues. Sept 17, 2009

Mention of the Medicine 2.0 Congress event being held at MaRS Sept 17, 2009.

Announcement that Dr Gordon Keller, the world's leading stem cell scientist will lead University Health Network's McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the MaRS Centre.

Announcement that Dr Gordon Keller, the world's leading stem cell scientist will lead University Health Network's McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the MaRS Centre. Oct 25, 2006

Rafi Hofstein, President and CEO of MaRS Innovation is one of the inaugural Board of Directors for The Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine (CCRM). CCRM is a MaRS tenant.

McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine - 2009 Golf Town Invitational benefit will raise funds for its groundbreaking research toward the treatment and cure of diabetes.

Tomorrow, MaRS hosts our 2nd extended citizenship ceremony. Sixty New Canadians along with their family and friends will take their oath right here in the MaRS Auditorium. Interesting to hear from one of our own community, Dr. Rosalind Silverman, a postdoctoral fellow with TGH and UofT Medicine, who won first-ever Top 25 Canadian Immigrants awards. Read her (and her sister, a a postdoc at UofT Medicine) story. This is why MaRS is involved in stuff like this: culturally diverse cities are also the most innovative (or so says Richard Florida). If we want to excel in the knowledge economy, we should all celebrate our cultural diversity!

As stated in the Toronto Staf, according to Kain, Director at the centre for Travel and Tropical Medicine at Toronto General Hospital, "Toronto officials should study travelers and the illnesses the bring back to understand and cope with widespread outbreaks of diseases."

As stated in the Toronto Star, according to Kain, Director at the centre for Travel and Tropical Medicine at Toronto General Hospital, "Toronto officials should study travelers and the illnesses the bring back to understand and cope with widespread outbreaks of diseases." Nov 11, 2005

Ontario is the home of stem cell research. Canada is ranks as one of the top 6 countries worldwide for its ongoing leadership in stem cell research. According to the Regenerative Medicine reported release in January 2008 by Veronika Litinski and Lincoln Kim, Ontario consistently ranks in the top 5 regions in North America for Stem Cell Research.

Ontario is the home of stem cell research. Canada is ranks as one of the top 6 countries worldwide for its ongoing leadership in stem cell research. According to the Regenerative Medicine reported release in January 2008 by Veronika Litinski and Lincoln Kim, Ontario consistently ranks in the top 5 regions in North America for Stem Cell Research. Jul 11, 2008

Expert Forensic Evidence in Criminal Proceedings: Avoiding Wrongful Convictions, is jointly organized by Osgoode Professional Development (the professional development program of York's Osgoode Hall Law School) and the Centre for Forensic Science & Medicine at the University of Toronto. Mention that the conference will be held at the MaRS Centre.

Expert Forensic Evidence in Criminal Proceedings: Avoiding Wrongful Convictions, is jointly organized by Osgoode Professional Development (the professional development program of York's Osgoode Hall Law School) and the Centre for Forensic Science & Medicine at the University of Toronto. Mention that the conference will be held at the MaRS Centre. April 30, 2009

Canada has joined Australia, Finland, Ireland, India, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom in providing nationwide access to the Cochrane Library, a collection of evidence-based medicine reviews and a critical health sciences resource. The current pilot project, which runs through the end of 2009, allows all Canadian users to access the complete Cochrane collection from any computer in the country. The Canadian Health Libraries Association reports that almost 40,000 Canadians were denied access to a Cochrane systematic review in 2007.

Many medical laboratories within the province of Ontario are operating with outdated equipment, which is a contributing factor of the incapability to dea with major outbreaks of diseases. There is a modern laboratory estimated at $ 40 million that is planned to go into MaRS Phase II complex. 

The family of Dr. John Evans, an innovator in both medicine and business, is donating $10-million to the Toronto MaRS Discovery District. The money will be used to create a MaRS Solutions Lab, which will be designed to help tackle a range of problems - from the commercialization of medical discoveries to global health issues - while providing opportunities for young Canadians, who will have the chance to become fellows at MaRS.

The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) is applying the newest concepts in life sciences-stem cell therapies, personalized medicine-to one of the oldest diseases.

Tenille Bonoguore, Globe and Mail features the MaRS Centre and meets 12 of its' "best specimens." MaRS is one of the 10 largest biomedical clusters in the continent.

Tenille Bonoguore, Globe and Mail features the MaRS Centre and meets 12 of its' "best specimens." Bonoguore states "MaRS Centre is one of the 10 largest biomedical clusters in the continent." Jan 5, 2008

Expert Forensic Evidence in Criminal Proceedings: Avoiding Wrongful Convictions, is jointly organized by Osgoode Professional Development (the professional development program of York's Osgoode Hall Law School) and the Centre for Forensic Science & Medicine at the University of Toronto. Mention that the conference will be held at the MaRS Centre.

Nanomedicine is a field that is growing and there will be an exponential growth in products. U of T scientists David Jaffray and Christine Allen are amongst those that are going through clinical trials. Allen and Jaffray's invention is being shephered to market by MaRS Innovation.

Express Scripts Inc., the big St. Louis pharmacy-benefit manager, is about to test an electronic pill container that issues a series of increasingly insistent reminders, in a national study among patient members. The GlowCap gives electronic reminders and collects data on habits. The container-actually a high-tech top for a standard pill bottle called a "GlowCap"-is equipped with a wireless transmitter that plugs into the wall. When it is time for a dose of medicine, the GlowCap emits a pulsing orange light

"The United States spends more on health care-related research and development than any other country. In 2003, it was estimated that the Federal government alone spent over $26 billion. Pharmaceutical companies, device manufacturers and other private companies invested over $10 billion more. At its best, the American health care system is capable of delivering care unsurpassed anywhere else in the world. Yet, a 1999 Institute of Medicine study estimated that as many as 98,000 Americans die each year from hospital related medical errors. A recent study by the Rand Corporation (a non-profit think tank) concluded that less than 50 percent of encounters with doctors and hospitals resulted in optimal, evidence-based treatment. Studies show that as many as 42 million Americans - almost 15 percent of the population - lack health care insurance. Surveys reveal that patients do not feel they have adequate information about their conditions, and that their experience with health care ranks below that of most other sectors, in fact below that of the post office. In the aggregate, the country is spending nearly $2 trillion on health care, and yet the nation's health care system does not meet acceptable thresholds for safety, quality, access or cost. In 2005, VHA Health Foundation's board of directors sought to better understand the reasons behind this paradox. The foundation commissioned Larry Keeley and his associates at Doblin Inc. to apply the rigorous analytical methods that are used in their evaluation of other American industries and companies. The project set out to discover when, where and how innovation was taking place in health care. It also sought to identify organizations that were developing model innovation processes, and to explore where opportunities for successful innovation might lay."

Out of the 100 largest economies in the world, about half are multinational corporations. Given their impact on global communities, it is increasingly essential that these large corporations execute responsibility to society, rather than rely on governments and non-profits to address difficult social issues alone

MaRS Discovery has a new exhibit called Insulin: Toronto's Gift to the World.The exhibit is a joint effort of the Faculty of Medicine, the MaRS Discovery commercialization initiative and the University Health Network, a group of U of T teaching hospitals.