TELUS in Health, is a call to the engineering and business communities to help change the healthcare landscape in Canada. Giovanni Pizzoferrato will be presenting at the monthly TIM lecture at Carleton University on Thursday July 5th. The event is open to everyone....
Come visit our booth at the Health and Lifestyle EXPO presented by CARP Brockville & Thousand Island Chapter on June 8th, 2012 from 10am until 8pm. Located in the lovely Brockville Country Club at 1548 King Street West.
The Alzheimer’s Society of Lanark County is hosting a day long session titled Discussing Dementia at the Civitan Hall in Almonte, Ontario on April 18th. The day begins with registration at 8:30am and ends at 2:30pm. Lunch is included. See Discussing Dementia...
A task force of mental health experts responsible for updating the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) manual has proposed changes to the way doctors diagnose Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia. The task force has proposed...
A recent study suggests that individuals who have a dementia diagnosis are hospitalized at a rate of 86% compared to 59% for individuals who do not have that diagnosis. Since dementia reduces the ability of an individual to care for themselves, having the disease...
The 6th Human Amyloid Imaging Conference held in Florida last month debated the ethical issues surrounding the use of amyloid imaging to diagnose Alzheimer’s Disease. Research clinicians can now peer inside the living brain using a PET scan to see senile plaques...
