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Smart-e-Pants now being tested in Alberta hospitals

02/03/2012: New technology designed to prevent pressure ulcers for people with spinal cord injury  more...

Feds Top Up Alberta Pfizer Collaboration Fund

01/20/2012:  $2.5 million initiative between industry and government boosts commercialization efforts for new drug therapies and health products  more...

Federal Government Announces Funding for Suicide Prevention

01/10/2012: Of particular interest to Aboriginal communities, initiative will utilize CIHR Evidence on Tap program,to review global suicide prevention information  more...

Order of Canada for scientist from Duchess, AB

01/04/2012: Professor Cheryl Bartlett honoured for helping to develop a new approach to integrating Aboriginal learning traditions into post-secondary science education  more...

New biofilm shows promise in detoxifying oil sands tailings

01/04/2012: Alberta researchers isolate biofilms indigenous to oil sands environments   more...

Nitrogen ‘double whammy’ could alter lakes

12/22/2011: University of Washington study indicates more than 75% of lakes show a distinctive signal of nitrogen released from human activities before the start of the 20th century  more...

Program helps sheep producers with new technology

12/20/2011: New grant program improves flock management and traceability  more...

First Nations' immunization records are now going digital

12/16/2011: Cybera and Pfizer help fund groundbreaking program to digitize records for Stoney, Siksika, Kehewin and Frog Lake First Nations
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Last post for Sustainable Forest Management Network

12/16/2011: Director Dr. Jim Fyles signs off SFMN Legacy Program with last two publications  more...

Study: New drug cuts deaths after heart attack

12/14/2011: Xarelto proves beneficial in low doses  more...

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After two years of transition, Alberta Innovates Health Solutions is ready to launch its new funding regime for health research. According to AIHS CEO Dr. Jacques Magnan, the new programs include money to set up four Translational Research Chairs at the university level. (Alberta Innovates Health Solutions)

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