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Sylvia Fedoruk’s ground breaking work in physics has brought a lot of pride to Canada and to the science community of Saskatchewan.

Engineering & Technology

Adventures in radiation

Algonquin college

Molly Gatt Algonquin College Journalism Program Most of us have been touched by cancer in one way or another. It’s also likely that radiation treatment was used in helping with recovery. Fifty per cent of cancer patients have undergone radiation treatment. This is because radiation attacks the DNA of cancer cells so they can’t reproduce. Canadian scientist Sylvia Fedoruk devoted her life’s work to helping people with radiation techniques. Scientists have been using radiation to fight cancer

Douglas Copp was Canadian biochemist who worked on the Manhattan Project and found a protein to help cure bone disease. Source: The Canadian Medical Hall of Fame and Irma Coucill (artist).

Douglas Copp discovers a way to treat osteoporosis

Algonquin college

Ilana Reimer Algonquin College Journalism Program The Manhattan Project, a top secret military plan to produce the first U.S. atomic bomb, was created in 1942. Only a year later, a young, highly-qualified Canadian biochemist was recruited to the team. Douglas Harold Copp was still in his twenties, but he already held a medical doctor degree with honours from the University of Toronto, as well as a second doctorate in biochemistry. His father was a family physician, which was likely what inspired

Dr. Norman Bethune stands to the right of a Canadian Blood transfusion Unit which operated during the Spanish Civil War. Source: Library and Archives Canada, reference number: PA-117423.

An innovative surgeon ahead of his time

Algonquin college

Amelia Buchanan Algonquin College Journalism Program Every day of the Great Depression, Henry Norman Bethune saw people living in poverty who could not afford to pay doctors. So he opened a clinic for the unemployed in 1935 and treated patients for free. Bethune firmly believed in universal health care, but at the time the idea was dismissed as too radical. He never lived to see his dream of socialized health care in Canada come true. The Montreal surgeon specialized in tuberculosis, a disease

Dr. Maude Abbott

A doctor’s life: not for the faint of heart

Algonquin college

Molly Gatt Algonquin College Journalism Program Dr. Maude Abbott was world famous for her work in congenital heart disease. Also known as the “beneficent tornado,” she had an unstoppable energy. Born in St. Andrews East, Quebec, Abbott lost her parents as an infant. In 1890 she became the first woman to graduate with a bachelor’s degree from McGill University. After graduating at the top of her class, she was denied access to the McGill’s medical school. Unnerved by her rejection, Abbott studied

Frederick Banting

The father of insulin

Algonquin college

Shawna O’Neill Algonquin College Journalism Program After suffering the loss of a good friend to diabetes, a deadly disease at the time, Frederick Banting’s interest in medicine evolved, leading him to develop one of the greatest Canadian discoveries: insulin. During the summer of 1921 Frederick Banting and his colleague Charles Best successfully isolated insulin, using a professor’s empty laboratory at the University of Toronto. With the aid of Dr. James Collip, insulin was then successfully

Canada’s 1st open heart surgery

Engineering & Technology

Canada's 1st open heart surgery

University of Alberta

In 1956, John Callaghan conducted Canada’s 1st successful open-heart surgery at the University of Alberta (UAlberta) Hospital. While the surgery performed may be ‘simple’ by today’s standards, at the time it pushed the boundaries of modern heart surgery and knowledge. Pioneering advances In 1946, John Callaghan graduated from University of Toronto. While there, he and fellow cardia surgeon Wilfred Bigelow developed new cardiac surgical techniques to slow the heart for heart surgery. In 1951, the

Dr. William Osler

Sending Medical Students Into "An Uncharted Sea"

McGill University

Imagine being treated by a newly minted doctor who had never treated a flesh-and-blood patient before. Imagine a young doctor whose had only read about medicine in books. Until Dr. William Osler began teaching medicine at McGill University, that’s how doctors learned their practice: from books. Dr. Osler began the now-standard practice of residencies – in which medical students are paired with experienced doctors and treat patients. “To study medicine without books is to sail an uncharted sea,”

Beyond Nature Vs. Nurture

McGill University

For most of the 20th century, human behaviour was believed to be determined by a mysterious mix of inherited traits and the psychological effects of experience – nature and nurture. Turns out, experiences that your ancestors had can have an effect – positive or negative – on your own genetic make-up. In 1992, two McGill University scientists began a casual exchange of ideas that grew into a ground-breaking new scientific subfield: behavioral epigenetics. Dr. Moshe Szyf, a molecular biologist and

Dr. Margaret Lock

Social Science & Culture

Medicine Isn't Just Science - It's Culture

McGill University

Sometimes the person best equipped to explain what goes on in a doctor’s office isn’t a doctor, it’s an anthropologist. Dr. Margaret Lock started her academic career in biochemistry, but after a visit to Japan she was compelled to switch disciplines and got a PhD in anthropology. She went on to start one of the world’s preeminent Medical Anthropology programs, at McGill University. Her work – on menopause, women and aging, organ harvesting, and Alzheimer’s disease, among many others subjects –

Dr. Bernard Belleau

Saving Millions of Lives, Long After His Passing

McGill University

Early treatments of the AIDS virus caused debilitating side-effects in patients. In the mid-1980s the need for an alternative that was easier on patients’ bodies was urgent, and McGill University chemistry professor Dr. Bernard Belleau, along with his colleagues Francesco Bellini and Gervais Dionne, were hard at work on one. Not long before Dr. Belleau’s death in 1989, the team developed 3TC or Lamivudine, which has since been credited with saving the lives of some 2 million people worldwide

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