November 26th, 2009 Posted by Tanya Hutchens
Sarojeni Rengam (Malaysia) is the Executive Director of the Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN-AP), a global network working towards the eradication of pesticide problems and promoting sustainable agriculture. She works in the areas of gender particularly women in agriculture, food security and sovereignty, anti-globalisation and community pesticide monitoring by [...]
October 19th, 2009 Posted by Tanya Hutchens
Doing Everything to Help the Best Canadian Researchers Defeat Cancer
Founded in 1945, The Cancer Research Society (The CRS) is a national not-for-profit organization whose sole mission is to fund cancer research exclusively and to offer seed money for the most promising original ideas, projects and researchers across Canada.
In concert with our funding [...]
October 19th, 2009 Posted by Tanya Huchens
For over 100 years, The Canadian Lung Association has been dedicated to its mission of promoting and improving lung health for all Canadians. A non-profit and volunteer-based health charity, The Lung Association depends on donations from the public to support lung health research, education, prevention and advocacy.
The Lung Association movement began in [...]
October 16th, 2009 Posted by Tanya Hutchens
Dr Shoukat Dedhar, BC Cancer Agency, UBC, $682,500 over five years, is focusing on how a group of receptors, integrins, and a protein that he identified, ILK, react to their microenvironment to regulate cell growth, movement and death. This work may lead to the development of more effective therapies for cancer.
Dr Grant [...]
October 16th, 2009 Posted by Tanya Hutchens
Scientists are making great strides in identifying potential new interventions to diagnose, slow, prevent, treat, and someday cure Alzheimer’s disease. Currently, more than 90 drugs are in clinical trials for AD, and more are in the pipeline awaiting Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to enter human testing.
AD research can move forward [...]
October 13th, 2009 Research is the only route to discovering new and better ways to manage and treat the many forms of arthritis. With financial support from its Division offices, The Arthritis Society has been able to develop an excellent Research and Career Development Program that contributes millions of dollars each year to arthritis research in Canada.
This year, [...]
October 13th, 2009 OCTOBER IS BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH
October is a month to build breast cancer awareness and to pay tribute to those affected by this disease. Learn more about breast cancer and how to become breast aware by visiting http://www.cbcf.org/breastcancer.
BREAST CANCER IN CANADA
In 2009 22,700 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer
In 2008 170 men will [...]
October 13th, 2009 Researchers Dr. Marc Therrien at the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) of the Université de Montréal, and Dr. Frank Sicheri, at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, have discovered a new target that may be instrumental in the development of new, more effective cancer therapies.
A recent article [...]
September 14th, 2009 To the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation it means funding research with the support of our donors, corporate partners, volunteers and staff. It means using the generosity of individuals and companies across Canada to find ways to make a future without breast cancer a possibility.
What does the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation do?
The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation [...]
September 14th, 2009 Posted by Tanya Hutchens
March 30, 2009 – Mount Sinai Hospital’s Dr. Alexander Logan has discovered a new and easy way for physicians to check the overall quality of their patients’ diet, and help them improve their long-term health. In a study to be published in the April 2009 issue of The Journal of Nutrition, Dr. [...]