2016 News Archive

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Have you ever been asked to participate in a clinical trial? Researchers need your feedback.
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Wednesday, November 09, 2016

Health Canada posted public and stakeholder surveys to evaluate progress under the Regulatory Transparency and Openness Framework (launched April, 2014).
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Friday, October 14, 2016

Proposed revisions to the Tri-council Policy Statement version 2 (TCPS2): Ethical conduct for research involving humans are open for public consultation.
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Thursday, October 13, 2016

Learn rationale for the global movement to publish the results for all clinical trials by watching a TEDx Madrid talk by Sile Lane on "The hidden side of clinical trials".
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Monday, October 10, 2016

CHAIN launches 5 new special interest groups under CHAIN Technologies subgroup, including Regenerative Medicine; Telecare, telemedicine, teleconsulting; Bio-technical and adaptive devices; The use of social media; and Applied information technology.
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Friday, September 30, 2016

The Covenant Health Research Centre (CHRC) invites abstracts to be considered for presentation at the Covenant Health Research Day titled: "My life in a petri dish – Covenant Health as a living lab"
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Tuesday, September 06, 2016

Under the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) initiative, Health Canada and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are holding joint public consultation meetings on International Council for Harmonisation (ICH) guidelines currently under development.
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Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Alberta Innovates Health Solutions (AI-HS) along with three other Alberta Innovates corporations will consolidate into one corporation, as announced in the Government of Alberta Budget 2016.
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016

The CHRC has released a report reflecting data from the 2015-2016 fiscal year.
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Tuesday, July 19, 2016

The Seniors' Health, Strategic Clinical Network (SCN) team has announced a new grant opportunity.
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Thursday, July 07, 2016

The U.S. Office of Research Integrity (ORI) June newsletter is now available for download.
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Monday, July 04, 2016

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on-line database is now available for use.
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Grand Challenges Canada, funded by the Government of Canada, has two new open funding opportunities open to applicants in low and middle income countries and Canada.
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Wednesday, June 01, 2016

Health Evidence™ has a new look! The healthevidence.org online repository of 4,600+ quality-rated public health relevant reviews has implemented website updates to improve the user experience.
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Wednesday, May 25, 2016

N2 and CITI Canada are pleased to announce the launch of the “Introductory Course on Privacy and Security for Personal Health Information in the Canadian Health Research Environment.”
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Tuesday, May 24, 2016

The Protecting Canadians from Unsafe Drugs Act (Vanessa's Law) introduces a new power to require certain healthcare institutions to report serious adverse drug reactions and medical device incidents. Health Canada is currently seeking feedback, open until July 11th, 2016.
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Monday, May 09, 2016

Did you know that nurses led forty-one research projects at Covenant Health over the past five years!
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Friday, April 29, 2016

The Inner City Health and Wellness Symposium will be held June 13th, 2016 at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton, AB.
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Tuesday, April 26, 2016

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services - Office of Research Integrity has released the latest newsletter for March, 2016.
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Monday, April 18, 2016

CIHR releases latest funding opportunities in CIHR Funding News bulletin: CIHR Issue 213
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Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Researchers in Canada are trying to learn more about people's experiences involving clinical trials.
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Friday, April 08, 2016

The Secretariat on Responsible Conduct of Research has posted two modules to the TCPS 2 tutorial, Course on Research Ethics (CORE): Multi-Jurisdictional Research, and Research Involving the First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples of Canada.
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Tuesday, April 05, 2016

Alberta SPOR SUPPORT Unit opens Knowledge Translation Platform for Alberta-based health science researchers who have research projects that involve knowledge synthesis, knowledge translation and implementation science components.
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Monday, April 04, 2016

Call for Abstracts for the 7th biannual Edmonton zone Nursing Research Day
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Thursday, March 31, 2016

Effective April 1st, 2016, all new Alberta cancer-related research trials will undergo review through the Health Research Ethics Board of Alberta - Cancer Committee.
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Tuesday, March 08, 2016

The Alberta Clinical Research Consortium (ACRC) has released the latest issue - Vol. 4, Issue 1, of "Clinical Research Source".
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Wednesday, March 02, 2016

A new video produced by Network of Networks (N2) to educate research participants, potential research participants and the public about clinical trials has been released in both English and French. The video provides some basic information about clinical trials; a starting point for having a conversation about clinical trials.
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Thursday, February 25, 2016

Alberta Innovates Health Solutions (AIHS) releases their latest issue newsletter.
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Tuesday, February 23, 2016

The 11th annual Covenant Health Research Day focused on resilience.
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Tuesday, February 23, 2016

The Alberta Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) Support unit issued their newsletter UPDATE
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Thursday, February 18, 2016

The Health Research Ethics Board of Alberta (HREBA) is providing expanded view access to the IRISS system.
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Thursday, February 18, 2016

The 27th annual Palliative Care Education and Research Days planning committee has issued a call for abstracts.
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Wednesday, February 10, 2016

The Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics is pleased to share new additions to its growing collection of responses to written requests for interpretation of the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (TCPS 2).
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Friday, January 29, 2016

We invite poster submissions to EXPO 2016: Alberta’s Largest Independent Living and Mobility show, sponsored by Alberta Health Services and Covenant Health. Deadline for submission is February 15th, 2016, at 4:00PM
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Monday, January 25, 2016

Effective February 1, 2016: Streamlined Research Administration Pathway Launched for Calgary Zone Clinical Research Studies.
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Friday, January 22, 2016

We've received several reports from people having difficulty accessing the registration site using Internet Explorer.
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Friday, January 22, 2016

The CHRC has developed a new page to profile those areas that demonstrate research excellence within Covenant Health.
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Monday, January 11, 2016

Call for abstracts deadline extended until January 22nd, 2016 for the upcoming Transforming Healthcare in Remote Communities conference.
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Friday, January 08, 2016

16th Annual Mary O'Connor Palliative and Hospice Care Conference is being held on April 27th, 2016 at MacEwan Hall, University of Calgary
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