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Research project: Neuropathologist Dr. Melvyn Ball, who's studying root causes of Alzeimer's Disease, says the slow, mystery illness kills as many as 17,000 Canadians a year.
Research project: Neuropathologist Dr. Melvyn Ball, who's studying root causes of Alzeimer's Disease, says the slow, mystery illness kills as many as 17,000 Canadians a year.

Research project: Neuropathologist Dr. Melvyn Ball, who's studying root causes of Alzeimer's Disease, says the slow, mystery illness kills as many as 17,000 Canadians a year.

Date2/6/1982
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A $10,000 machine which can detect a disease which kills children before they are of school age is demonstrated by Dr. J. A. Lowden of the Hospital fo(...)
A $10,000 machine which can detect a disease which kills children before they are of school age is demonstrated by Dr. J. A. Lowden of the Hospital fo(...)
11/22/1971
Cautions approach: Businessman Frank Strong's product kills AIDS virus but his company tries to avoid exploiting fear of the disease
Cautions approach: Businessman Frank Strong's product kills AIDS virus but his company tries to avoid exploiting fear of the disease
11/24/1988
A $139,800 Grant from The Atkinson Charitable Foundation will expand research into scoliosis, a hereditary, genetic disease that causes the spine to c(...)
A $139,800 Grant from The Atkinson Charitable Foundation will expand research into scoliosis, a hereditary, genetic disease that causes the spine to c(...)
6/8/1975
A $139,800 Grant from the Atkinson Charitable Foundation will expand research into scoliosis, a hereditary, genetic disease that causes the spine to c(...)
A $139,800 Grant from the Atkinson Charitable Foundation will expand research into scoliosis, a hereditary, genetic disease that causes the spine to c(...)
6/19/1976
A $139,800 grant from the Atkinson Charitable Foundation will expand research into scoliosis, a hereditary, genetic disease that causes the spine to c(...)
A $139,800 grant from the Atkinson Charitable Foundation will expand research into scoliosis, a hereditary, genetic disease that causes the spine to c(...)
4/6/1976
Probing deadly illness: Dr. Jay Keystone, a member of a team trying to get money to study the disease AIDS, says it's claiming relatively few victims but appears to be spreading
Probing deadly illness: Dr. Jay Keystone, a member of a team trying to get money to study the disease AIDS, says it's claiming relatively few victims but appears to be spreading
6/9/1981
Tracing disease: Dr. Jim Nethercott looks at a slide of herpes virus at St. Michael's Hospital before he places it on his microscope. Since herpes isn't a reportable disease, there are no statistics showing how many people have active outbreaks, but the number of Canadians infected with genital herpes is estimated at 250,000 to 500,000.
Tracing disease: Dr. Jim Nethercott looks at a slide of herpes virus at St. Michael's Hospital before he places it on his microscope. Since herpes isn't a reportable disease, there are no statistics showing how many people have active outbreaks, but the number of Canadians infected with genital herpes is estimated at 250,000 to 500,000.
6/1/1980
Tracing disease: Dr. Jim Nethercott looks at a slide of herpes virus at St. Michael's Hospital before he places it on his microscope. Since herpes isn't a reportable disease, there are no statistics showing how many people have active outbreaks, but the number of Canadians infected with genital herpes is estimated at 250,000 to 500,000.
Tracing disease: Dr. Jim Nethercott looks at a slide of herpes virus at St. Michael's Hospital before he places it on his microscope. Since herpes isn't a reportable disease, there are no statistics showing how many people have active outbreaks, but the number of Canadians infected with genital herpes is estimated at 250,000 to 500,000.
2/9/1982
Their marriage in crisis, a young couple are looking for advice from Dr. Ernest Moss, director of the Ontario Centre for Personality Development. Dr. Moss thinks that the confusion men and women have about their roles today causes problems in some marriages. The women's liberation movement has made some women more sexually aggressive and the effect can cause the husband to become temporarily impotent, the psychological says.
Their marriage in crisis, a young couple are looking for advice from Dr. Ernest Moss, director of the Ontario Centre for Personality Development. Dr. Moss thinks that the confusion men and women have about their roles today causes problems in some marriages. The women's liberation movement has made some women more sexually aggressive and the effect can cause the husband to become temporarily impotent, the psychological says.
1/29/1975
Finding a cure?: Dr. P. Canham of the University of Western Ontario is able to research factors that cause coronar artery disease with a Foundation grant.
Finding a cure?: Dr. P. Canham of the University of Western Ontario is able to research factors that cause coronar artery disease with a Foundation grant.
7/7/1991
Eye operation: Eye surgeon Dr. Lionel Chisholm of Toronto Western Hospital says a research clinic here would provide a centre where he and other doctors could share information on eye treatment techniques with researchers. Because there is no eye research institute in Canada, those with disease or injures often travel to the U.S., the site of the nearest eye centres.
Eye operation: Eye surgeon Dr. Lionel Chisholm of Toronto Western Hospital says a research clinic here would provide a centre where he and other doctors could share information on eye treatment techniques with researchers. Because there is no eye research institute in Canada, those with disease or injures often travel to the U.S., the site of the nearest eye centres.
2/4/1986
The home doctor, or, Family manual: giving the causes, symptoms and treatment of diseases, with an account of the system while in health, and rules for preserving that state; appended to which are recipes for making various medicines and articles of diet for the sick room
The home doctor, or, Family manual: giving the causes, symptoms and treatment of diseases, with an account of the system while in health, and rules for preserving that state; appended to which are recipes for making various medicines and articles of diet for the sick room
1864