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Patch up and protect against the sun

Parents are always in a frenzy to make sure their kids are caked in sunscreen in order to protect them during the blaze of a Canadian summer. This way they’re always one step ahead of ultra-violet rays trying to get through. Nanotechnology students at the University of Waterloo had the same concern, so they found a way to literally see when it’s time reapply sunblock. They started a company called Suncayr, and their flagship product is the Spot. It looks like a regular patch, to the uninformed

Alexander Wong, University of Waterloo systems design engineering professor and Canada Research Chair in Medical Imaging Systems

Breakthrough tech helps doctors more accurately diagnose cancer

University of Waterloo

Over-treatment of cancer patients is controversial. Now big data mining of MRI images and CT scans is helping radiologists make the right diagnosis. Corporations use big data mining to find out everything from the kind of car you want to buy to your favorite holiday destination. Now, doctors are using it to make sure when somebody is diagnosed with cancer - they’ve got it right. Research from the University of Waterloo is taking speculation off the table so radiologists can more accurately

Dr. Breault received his M.D. from Western University in 1936.

Child-Proof Container

Janis Nostbakken

Dr. Henri J. Breault, a pediatrician in Windsor, Ontario is credited with saving the lives of countless children around the world. By the time he opened the Poison Control Centre at Hotel Dieu Hospital in 1957, he had treated all too many cases of children who had been accidentally poisoned. There were more than 100,000 incidents a year across Canada alone, and some of them were fatal. Breault initiated a vigorous public education campaign in an attempt to decrease that number, but when his

Photo credit: Suzanna Rushton, Global Physics Photowalk 2015

Down the Rabbit Line - Transporting Medical Isotopes

Medical isotopes have become powerful tools in the fight against disease, allowing researchers and doctors to visualize and treat illnesses with unprecedented accuracy and efficacy. However, the very mechanism that makes radioisotopes so useful, radioactive decay, poses serious obstacles for supply management systems. Depending on the half-life of the particular isotope, medical isotope compounds can lose their effectiveness in a matter of hours. TRIUMF, Canada’s National laboratory for particle

Telesurgery - courtesy of the National Research Council of Canada

Telesurgery

Ingenious - Ingénieux

The remote operation. Innovation often involves marrying seemingly unrelated methods to tackle pressing problems. In 2013, surgeons at the University Health Network in Toronto—led by Dr. Allan Okrainec—and engineers at Canada’s National Research Council—led by Nushi Choudhury—brought together the latest advances in communications and simulation technology to provide long-distance teaching to neurosurgeons in Ghana. The need for teaching is plain. More than fourteen thousand young children are

Insulin - Photo courtesy of Ingenium

Insulin

Ingenious - Ingénieux

The end of terror. Diabetes. There was a time when the word struck terror in the hearts of parents. A child diagnosed with the disease could expect to live a life of perpetual illness and suffering that would likely end in death before the child emerged from adolescence. That the word no longer strikes terror is largely because of three Canadians: medical scientist Dr. Frederick Banting, his assistant Charles Best, and their University of Toronto patron and adviser J.J.R. Macleod. In their

Dr. Cornelia Hoehr, a research scientist at TRIUMF and manager of the TRIUMF Proton Therapy facility, prepares a patient for treatment.

Proton Therapy Cancer Treatment

Canada’s first proton therapy facility On August 21, 1995, Mr. Lorne Scott of Campbell River, BC, became the first person in Canada to have his cancer treated with a proton beam. Mr. Scott suffered from a rare form of ocular cancer called ocular melanoma, and had been faced with the dilemma that many Canadians with ocular melanoma experienced: either undergo traditional therapy, such as chemo- and radiotherapy, or travel abroad for the effective but expensive proton therapy treatment. The advent

Electric Wheelchair courtesy of the National Research Council of Canada

Household Technology

Electric Wheelchair

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The veteran’s new legs. War is often an exercise in unintended consequences. The wonder-drug penicillin, for instance, enabled thousands of gravely injured World War Two servicemen to survive their wounds, yet many of these otherwise doomed veterans returned to their homes and families as paraplegics and quadriplegics. Conventional wheelchairs were of little use to these men, whose manual strength and dexterity had been impaired or eliminated. George Klein embraced this new challenge—an

Making headway on head injuries

Canada Foundation for Innovation

McGill University’s Alain Ptito uses high resolution imaging equipment to get a closer look at how even minor brain trauma can have lasting effects. By Sharon Oosthoek As a young neuropsychologist, Alain Ptito was troubled by the sizeable number of his patients who suffered symptoms of traumatic brain injury after scans pronounced them recovered from their concussion. “Insurance companies would say this is a psychological problem; let’s treat it with therapy,” he recalls. But Ptito decided to

Montreal robot arm changing global lives

Kinova is featured in Innovation150’s national public awareness campaign. Learn more. Innovation runs in Charles Deguire’s family. While fighting muscular dystrophy, Deguire’s uncle Jaco built himself a robot arm out of a hot dog pincher, bicycle cables, a desk lamp arm and a variety of electronics. The crude manipulator convinced Deguire to become an engineer so he could help bring mobility to others like his uncle with the desire to have a better standard of living. “We’re constantly striving

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