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Friday, February 3rd, 2012The Canadian Stroke Network and European Stroke Network are excited to announce a new collaborative research initiative.
Funding will be used to support collaborative research projects that involve both a Canadian and European arm. The proposal should be catalytic in nature, encouraging new areas of exploration or knowledge sharing between countries. In addition, trainees (Masters, PhD, [...]
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2012People who have mild strokes do not receive enough guidance on the challenges of getting back behind the wheel, despite studies that show an increased risk of car accidents, according to Canadian research presented today at the International Stroke Conference.
McGill University researcher Dr. Nicol Korner Bitensky and graduate student Anita Petzold surveyed more than 400 [...]
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2012The Canadian Stroke Network Summer Studentship program’s goal is to allow students to obtain research experience related to stroke and to provide support to undergraduate and medical students engaged in summer research projects in the area of stroke at a Canadian university or affiliated institution.
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Summer Studentships are intended to provide financial support for the [...]
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2012Michael Tymianski, Canada Research Chair in Translational Stroke Research, will deliver the 2012 Hnatyshyn Lecture at the Canadian Stroke Congress in Calgary. The lecture is the featured plenary presentation at the Congress.
Dr. Tymianski, a respected Toronto neurosurgeon and researcher, was selected by the Congress Program Committee.
“Mike has made a tremendous contribution towards advancing new therapies [...]
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2012The Canadian Stroke Network along with other health groups sent a letter to Stephen Harper urging the government take action to reduce sodium consumption in Canada.
Click here to read the letter.
The Globe and Mail wrote an article about the letter:
Some of the country’s most prominent health organizations have banded together to demand action from Prime [...]
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Wednesday, January 4th, 2012The Canadian Stroke Network and European Stroke Network are excited to announce a new collaborative research initiative.
Funding will be used to support collaborative research projects that involve both a Canadian and European arm. The proposal should be catalytic in nature, encouraging new areas of exploration or knowledge sharing between countries. In addition, trainees (Masters, PhD, [...]
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2011When a patient has been stabilized following a stroke, the treating physician frequently faces questions from family members and clinical decisions that require predictions of outcome and risk of death.
Clinicians have to largely rely on their own case experience to answer these questions.
iSCORE is a new tool that can provide quantitative estimates of risk of [...]
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Monday, December 19th, 2011Members of the 2012 Canadian Stroke Congress Program Committee have already rolled up their sleeves and started to work on an integrated, robust and dynamic program for the Sept. 29 to Oct. 2 meeting at the Telus Convention Centre in Calgary.
Chaired by Dr. Michael Hill of the University of Calgary and Dr. Mark Bayley [...]
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Monday, December 19th, 2011Several provinces, including PEI, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland, have held sessions to carefully review provincial data collected for the Canadian Stroke Audit. During special feedback sessions within each province, the data were presented at the provincial and regional levels and compared to national results. Attendees at these sessions included provincial government stroke leads, senior [...]
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2011The Registry of the Canadian Stroke Network will now be referred to as the “Ontario Stroke Registry”.
As part of the planning for the expiration of NCE funding in 2013, the CSN has been working with stakeholders to transfer the legal responsibility for the Registry from the CSN to ICES.
Effective November 1, 2011, the Institute for [...]
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