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News Archives 2005

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December

12/20/05	IM partnership extends to Toronto Rehab
12/13/05	PMH donor “doves” to honour 5,000 loved ones at dedication
12/06/05	Keep a Cancer Patient Warm This Holiday Season! Each blanket sold at PMH buys another for a chemotherapy patient
12/01/05	Canada’s first percutaneous “Edge-to-Edge” mitral valve repair without open-heart surgery performed at Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, TGH

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November

11/25/05	UHN paves the way for successful staff flu campaign
11/11/05	Symposium marks new Toronto Medical Discovery Tower launch
11/11/05	New drug laboratory a Shanghai-Toronto collaboration
11/10/05	Treating sleep apnea improves heart function in heart failure patients
11/08/05	Cash, Cars & Condos Lottery Top 10 Winners!
11/02/05	UHN walks away with two prestigious information technology industry awards

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October

10/27/05	TWH opens Canada's top neuroimaging dept
10/27/05	Technology + Brains = Canada’s Foremost Neuroimaging Department
10/18/05	UHN is Top 100 Employer for third consecutive year
10/12/05	"A Change of Heart" takes us behind TGH's heart transplant program
	•	Cardiac Transplant Program Fact Sheet
	•	Left Ventricle Assist Device (LVAD) Program Fact Sheet
10/07/05	Flu shot more vital than ever (Michael Gardam's article, The Star)

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September

09/27/05	Unsafe Driving in North American Automobile Commercials
09/30/05	HSS wants to issue bonds (Letter-to-the-Editor, The Spectator)
09/18/05	UHN researchers win "America's Nobel"
09/15/05	Third annual Weekend to End Breast Cancer a huge success
09/12/05	Cash, Cars & Condos Lottery Top 10 Winners!
09/02/05	Opening of Canada's first Centre for Mathematical Medicine

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August

08/23/05	Research Business Development and Global Ventures land at MaRS
08/23/05	“eHealth collaboratory” a new concept for improving healthcare
08/04/05	Janet Beed accepts post at Markham Stouffville Hospital

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July

07/14/05	New treatment extends survival for patients with advanced lung cancer
07/13/05	West Park Healthcare Centre becomes newest link in Shared Information Management Services Partnership
07/04/05	Northeast cluster hospitals partner with MDS and UHN for lab services

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June

06/16/05	UHN stretches campaign to a half-billion
06/16/05	Outgoing Chair of the Board of Trustees of UHN welcomes Supreme Court decision as a way of broadening discussion about health care
06/15/05	University Avenue to close on June 19
06/14/05	Patient centered care: palliative care service
06/13/05	Colleagues honour physician and humanitarian
06/10/05	Involving family, friends in patient-centered care
06/08/05	Pain Management launches Web site
06/02/05	Their Royal Highnesses The Earl and Countess of Wessex Rededicate Peter Munk Cardiac Centre at Toronto General Hospital

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May

05/26/05	Ontario’s first Gamma Knife arrives at the Toronto Western Hospital
05/16/05	A letter to the Editor of the Toronto Star from Tom Closson, UHN's CEO and President
05/16/05	New chemotherapy combination improves one-year survival for patients with advanced pancreatic cancer by 41%
05/03/05	Dr. Robert Bell appointed next President & Chief Executive Officer of UHN
05/03/05	Specific genes identification predicts which patients will respond to Hepatitis C treatment
	•	Patient Information Sheet
06/08/05	Pain Management launches Web site
06/02/05	Their Royal Highnesses The Earl and Countess of Wessex Rededicate Peter Munk Cardiac Centre at Toronto General Hospital

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April

04/25/05	UHN forms joint venture with major Shanghai research institute
04/13/05	Michael Burgess Performs 10th Annual Concert for Cancer Patients

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March

03/10/05	Bridgepoint Health and North York CCAC Newest Members of Innovative IT Partnership
03/09/05	TGH clinical trial on insulin-producing and "protected" human islet cell transplants
03/08/05	UHN posts infection rates for common hospital-acquired infections

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February

02/28/05	Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) may help severely depressed patients
02/10/05	The Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation announces Home Lottery 2005