Recent News
January 26, 2012 - Educator for January
Dr. John Finley – Teaches from the heart
 After 30 years as a pediatric cardiologist and teacher, Dr. John Finley still loves to teach. “It’s very engaging,” says Finley. “We are all pretty excited about the subject that we teach or we wouldn’t be teaching.” more >
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January 18, 2012
Working to stop Alzheimer's in its tracks
 At the heart of every new disease-fighting drug, there’s a medicinal chemist designing, making, and testing molecules.
In the case of Alzheimer’s disease, that chemist is Dr. Donald Weaver, Dalhousie professor and Canada Research Chair in Clinical Neuroscience. more >
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January 14, 2012 - Researcher for January
Dr. Darvesh – Understanding Alzheimer’s
 Dr. Sultan Darvesh is a neurologist and an organic chemist, which is not a combination you see everyday. He brings these two areas together to work on finding a way to definitively diagnose Alzheimer's disease and ultimately to find a cure. more >
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December 12, 2011- Researcher for December
Dr. Katrina Hurley – Common sense, Communication and Vision
 Dr. Katrina Hurley is a woman with a plan. When she puts her mind to something it usually comes off without a hitch.
She has wanted to be a doctor since she was 11 years old and her grandmother was dying from lung cancer. “I saw what she was experiencing and what our family was experiencing and I really wanted to do it better, to take care of more than just the medical problem. I wanted to take care of the whole patient,” says Hurley.
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November 23, 2011
Dalhousie lab discovers common blood protein promotes cancer growth
 Researchers at Dalhousie Medical School have identified a key mechanism of cancer metastasis that could lead to blocking tumour growth. The discovery was published in a recent issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
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November 14, 2011 - Researcher for November
Dr. Craig McCormick's getting schooled
by viruses
 Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) is a cancer that is caused by a viral infection. This virus, discovered in 1994, is the newest member of the human herpes virus family and the focus of Dr. Craig McCormick’s lab in Dalhousie’s Department of Microbiology and Immunology.
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November 8, 2011
Limiting the unknowns involved in taking prescription drugs
 Picking up a prescription has never been easier than it is today. Within a few minutes of leaving the doctor’s office, a patient can have their antibiotic, oral contraceptive, or asthma inhaler from the local pharmacy and walk away with the medication they need.
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October 31, 2011
Heart-to-ear: Dal medical professionals contribute to new diagnostic tools
 The stethoscope: a mandatory addition to any Halloween doctor costume, but not the first thing that springs to mind when one thinks of modern medicine.
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October 26, 2011
Dalhousie unveils “Teaching is where it’s AT,” a program for residents and clinicians alike
 Dalhousie Continuing Medical Education (CME), Postgraduate Medical Education (PGME), and Faculty Development are unveiling two new programs this November.
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October 18, 2011
Moncton retreat sets collaborative tone
 Department heads and other senior leaders at Dalhousie Medical School met in Moncton recently to map out future collaborations between the school’s two main campuses in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
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October 17, 2011- Researcher for October
Dr. Louise Parker - Walking the Path of Prevention
 For Dr. Louise Parker, the Canadian Cancer Society (Nova Scotia) Chair in Population Cancer Research, investment in disease prevention is sorely lacking in the health care continuum. more >
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October 14, 2011
Future of Brain Surgery Unfolds in Halifax
 Neurosurgery has been learned on the job for more than 100 years, but that’s about to change. It’s now possible to learn, practise and rehearse neurosurgical skills and neurosurgery without patients, using a one-of-a-kind simulator. more >
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October 12, 2011
New treatment for fibroid tumours wins Bioinnovation Challenge
 Dr. Daniel Boyd and collaborators win $30,000 prize from BioNova
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October 11, 2011
Hope for treating 'orphan diseases'
 It’s an ordeal that no family wishes to go through: watching a young child lose his or her eyesight. more >
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September 27, 2011
Margaret St. George’s vision transforms ophthalmology research
 Thanks to the generosity and foresight of a Nova Scotia woman, vision research at Dalhousie Medical School, Capital Health and the IWK Health Centre looks forward to a bright future. more >
September 16, 2011- Researcher for September
Dr. Roy Duncan and the pursuit
of interesting observations
 Academic research is a path not a destination for Virologist, Dr. Roy Duncan. Duncan is a professor and founded his virology laboratory in Dalhousie’s Department of Microbiology and Immunology. more >
September 2, 2011
Measles virus could help target - and kill - cancer
 Dalhousie Medical School researchers have discovered that a tumour cell marker is a receptor for the measles virus, suggesting the possible use of measles virus to help fight cancer. Their findings appear in a recent issue of PLoS Pathogens. more >
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