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New imaging technique helps detect  brain tumours earlier
New imaging technique helps detect brain tumours earlier

Brain tumours are often very difficult for doctors to find. Current imaging techniques that find other types of cancer without difficulty still often can’t easily find brain tumours. That means many patients are diagnosed with brain cancer too late for ...

Posted: June 1, 2011|Diagnostic, Neurology, Oncology|0 comments

Video gaming system being used to see patient imaging during surgery
Video gaming system being used to see patient imaging
during surgery

A team of engineers, University of Toronto residents and Sunnybrook cancer surgeons are doing much more than playing games with their Xbox Kinect™, they are using the technology during surgery to view critical patient imaging. One of the challenges during cancer ...

Posted: June 1, 2011|Diagnostic, Oncology, Surgery|0 comments

Turning the tide on intellectual disability: A new approach to diagnosis
Turning the tide on intellectual disability: A new
approach to diagnosis

BC Children’s Hospital is launching a new clinical research program that promises to change the medical paradigm for diagnosing and treating intellectual disability in children. The program, called “Treatable Intellectual Disability Endeavour in B.C. (TIDE-BC)”, features a diagnostic protocol of specific ...

Posted: June 1, 2011|Diagnostic, Pediatrics, Research|0 comments

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