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In the news: 30 clients’ most noted news releases of the decade

Terry Collins & Associates, Toronto, December 31, 2019   Many of the ~200 science news releases written and distributed for 30 clients in the 2010s

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Gene tests may help maximize early child development: Study

Grand Challenges Canada / Saving Brains Program, Toronto In study, children with a particular genetic variation were 4 times more likely to develop strong attachment to mother

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Micronutrient supplements during pregnancy linked to smarter kids

Grand Challenges Canada, Toronto Maternal Micronutrients, Nurturing Environment Boost Child Development Mothers who take multi-micronutrient supplements during pregnancy can add the equivalent of up to

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‘Friendship Bench’: A Blueprint for Tackling Developing World’s Mental Health Crisis

Grand Challenges Canada, Toronto In Zimbabwe, Friendship Bench therapy reduces prevalence of depression to less than 14 percent, compared to 50 percent in control group; First

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Kangaroo mother care helps premature babies thrive 20 years later — study

Grand Challenges Canada, Toronto Study funded by Saving Brains shows Kangaroo Mother Care kids 20 years later are better behaved, have larger brains, higher paycheques,

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Canadian innovation for killing mosquito eggs could help Zika fight

Grand Challenges Canada (#1 most viewed release (415,000+ page views) of 29,500 news releases hosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science at its EurekAlert

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New swab reveals infection causing severe diarrhea of 1 in 3 babies in African hospitals

Grand Challenges Canada, Toronto 25 May 2015 Innovative ‘flocked swab’ improves diagnosis, treatment of deadly childhood diarrheal diseases; results could prompt rethink of how to

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Think Outside the Xbox: Gaming Technologies + 3D Printing Leveraged to Help Amputees

Grand Challenges Canada, Toronto 19-Dec-2014 Canada Funds 23 Bold New Ideas for Global Health Nikolai Dechev Ultra high-speed gaming laptops and a sensor that lets

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Canada funds 22 innovative projects to help save ‘Every Woman, Every Child’

Grand Challenges Canada, Toronto 22-Sep-2014 Combining Mobile Phones with 3-D Printed Microscope Adapters to Diagnose Infectious Diseases On the eve of United Nations General Assembly

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Canada funds 65 innovative health projects to help save every woman, every child

Grand Challenges Canada, Toronto 22 May 2014 New investments top $12 million: 4 scale-up projects plus 61 seed grants announced as Canada prepares to host

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Smartphone app reads blood oxygen levels to hospital standards

Grand Challenges Canada, Toronto 9-Mar-2014 Scale-up of LGTmedical’s Phone Oximeter™ capitalized with $2 million Canadian private-public investment; device could save lives of women and children

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Mobile phones, apps toss lifeline to sufferers of brain & mental disorders in remote world corners

Grand Challenges Canada, Toronto January 10, 2014 In Bhutan: Clinical tests of new app for diagnosing seizure disorders; $300 device could vastly increase epilepsy treatment

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Diagnostic diapers to detect deadly rotavirus among 83 global health innovations to receive Grand Challenges Canada funding

Grand Challenges Canada, Toronto 21 Nov 2013 Grand Challenges Canada, funded by the Government of Canada, today extends seed grants of $100,000 each to 83

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‘Saving Brains’ of kids in developing countries: Grand Challenges Canada funds 14 bold new ideas

Grand Challenges Canada, Toronto 23 October 2013 4 projects nominated for grants up to $2 million; 10 projects awarded $270,000 Grand Challenges Canada, funded by

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Major awards announced for innovative solutions to prevent infant/maternal deaths

Grand Challenges Canada, Toronto Saving Lives at Birth 31 July 2013 Some 22 projects from nine countries: Australia, Canada, Guatemala, Italy, Senegal, Spain, Uganda, UK

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Inventive: 102 bold new global health ideas win Grand Challenges Canada funding

Grand Challenges Canada, Toronto 29 April, 2013 59 creative, out-of-box health innovations devised in 13 low- and middle-income countries, plus 43 from Canada, share $10.9

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Inspired: Canada funds 68 bold, inventive ways to improve health, save lives in developing countries

Grand Challenges Canada, Toronto 22 Nov. 2012 Grand Challenges Canada awards 68 $100,000 seed grants to innovators worldwide Some 51 innovators in 18 low and middle

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Mental disorders in developing nations: ‘the most neglected of neglected diseases’

Grand Challenges Canada, Toronto 10-Oct-2012 On World Mental Health Day, Grand Challenges Canada funds a burst of 15 innovative projects spanning the globe — Asia,

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Studies detail triumphs, troubles of African innovators creating products for local health needs

McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health 12 December 2010 Africans strengthen ability to meet health needs in sub-Sahara with homegrown science solutions, but many products stagnate

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Global health vs. global wealth: Looming choice for health firms in developing countries

McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health 14 September 2010 The lure of greater profits elsewhere in the world may divert bio-pharmaceutical firms in developing countries from

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Cheaper drugs, vaccines forecast as collaborations grow between developing countries’ biotech firms

McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health 10 May 2010 ‘South-South’ biotech collaborations boost health, economies: Study The availability of more affordable drugs, vaccines and diagnostics that

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Finishing the job of polio eradication worldwide is an ethical obligation: Experts

McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health Apr 20, 2010 55th anniversary of first polio vaccine Failure to pursue eradication of polio worldwide given the capacity and

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