Where you live: It impacts your health as much as diet and genes do, but it's not part of your medical records. At TEDMED, Bill Davenhall shows how overlooked government geo-data (from local heart-attack rates to toxic dumpsite info) can mesh with mobile GPS apps to keep doctors in the loop. Call it "geo-medicine." ____________________ Productivity
OTTAWA - Canada has a well-educated workforce that has not been given the required physical capital-machinery and equipment, infrastructure and buildings-to maximize output. This helps to explain the country's sluggish productivity growth over the past 25 years, the Conference Board argues in a new report released today.
FEI Canada and Ernst & Young study reveals companies well prepared for upturn
TORONTO - Economic recovery is predicted for the second half of 2010 now that widespread downsizing is largely complete and access to capital is improving, reveals a new study of more than 200 senior financial executives, conducted by Canadian Financial Executives Research Foundation (CFERF), the research institute of FEI Canada, and sponsored by Ernst & Young.
Learn practical tips to manage stress & rejuvenate your mind and body
Kitchener - Stress releif is beneficial for anyone wanting to learn how to better manage stress through diet, exercise, relaxation and cognitive restructuring techniques. Using the latest techniques for stress management.
Circuit training - When you do circuit training at the gym you move from station to station to systematically work out several different muscle groups. This gives you a well-rounded work out and hopefully a well-chiseled physique. Imagine if you just worked out your biceps and never worked out any other part of your body. ____________________ Global Health Care
- 35.6 Million People Worldwide Have Alzheimer's Disease And Other Dementias, Incidence Projected to Double Ever 20 years
- Total Economic Burden of $315 Billion With Increases Driven From Low & Middle Income Countries
LONDON - For the first time ever, Alzheimer's disease is a focus at the World Economic Forum. Today more than 35 million people worldwide have dementia and those numbers will double every 20 years to 65.7 million in 2030 and 115.4 million in 2050, according to the World Alzheimer's Report from Alzheimer's disease International (ADI), a London-based, nonprofit, international federation of 71 national Alzheimer organizations.
Insurance and mining sectors to lead earnings turnaround
TORONTO - When the final earnings reports are in for the last quarter of 2009, TSX operating profits should be up 43 per cent, the first increase since the third quarter of 2008, finds a new report from CIBC World Markets Inc.
London - Researchers at The University of Western Ontario (Western) led an international and multi-disciplinary study that sheds new light on the way that bats echolocate. With echolocation, animals emit sounds and then listen to the reflected echoes of those sounds to form images of their surroundings in their brains.
TORONTO - Networking at conferences is good business, according to a recent survey of chief financial officers (CFOs). One quarter (25 per cent) of executives polled said their most successful business meeting outside the office was conducted at a conference or trade show. Still, not everyone feels it's useful to get away from the office. Twenty-seven per cent of respondents cited their workplace as the only location for successful business meetings.
Hewitt and CBSR Data Establishes Strong Relationship between Employee Engagement and Views on CSR
TORONTO—Results from the 2010 Best Employers in Canada study indicate that executives of Canadian employers believe the return on investment in socially and environmentally responsible practices justifies the expenditure. Their instincts are correct: there is a strong correlation between employee engagement and employee views of their employers’ record on corporate social responsibility.
Ottawa – Marketing Magazine has named Carleton alumnus Angus Reid to the Marketing Hall of Legends. Last night, he was honoured at a special celebration. The Hall was created to honour Canadians who have dedicated their lives to the pursuit of excellence in the field of marketing. It honours a body of work and a lifetime of achievements.
WATERLOO - The University of Waterloo will draw talented engineering students from across the province this weekend to showcase their engineering skills, communication proficiency and entrepreneurship at the Ontario Engineering Competition.
WATERLOO – Forty students representing the Laurier School of Business & Economics captured the “School of the Year” title at the inaugural Jeux du Commerce (JDC) Central competition, held at Toronto’s Ryerson University Jan. 22-25. ____________________ Appointments
Businessman Paul Godfrey, world leader in diabetes research Mladen Vranic, humanitarian James Orbinski, Professor Constance Backhouse and news anchor Ken Shaw are among 29 new appointees to the Order of Ontario.
Queens Park - The appointees to Ontario's highest honour were chosen for their contributions to the arts, science, medicine, education, politics, philanthropy, law and media.
Guelph - Organic is green, but is it good? Following adoption last year of new organic standards in Canada, experts will discuss the values and ethics of organic production during the 2010 Guelph Organic Conference Jan. 28-31 at the University of Guelph.
The Future of the Global Financial System – Navigating the Challenges Ahead explores the forces that shape the financial services landscape in the near term
Davos-Klosters, Switzerland – A World Economic Forum report on the future of the global financial system is part of the world’s business and financial leaders’ drive to “rethink, redesign, rebuild” the global financial architecture. The Future of the Global Financial System – Navigating the Challenges Ahead, developed in collaboration with Oliver Wyman, will be presented to the leaders at the Annual Meeting in Davos.
TORONTO - Scientists at the University of Toronto have discovered a way to map the interactions of genes within a cell, a significant breakthrough that promises to help researchers better understand the causes of disease, and lead to more precise targeting of drug treatments.
Toronto - CANADA FOR HAITI, last Friday’s one-hour, commercial-free special produced collaboratively between CBC Television, CTV and Global Television, has raised more than $13.5 million to date for relief efforts in Haiti, it was confirmed today. When the funds are matched by the federal government, the amount increases to more than $27 million.
World News - "Oxfam urged Monday countries at the UN 'Friends of Haiti' emergency meeting to help quake-hit Haiti to cancel the devastated nation's $890 million of international debt.
The Oxford County Trails Council is announcing the launch of the fundraising campaign to raise money to construct the Oxford Thames River Trail in the Beachville area. Construction will begin in early 2010.
New York - A combined chemotherapy regimen of capecitabine and oxaliplatin given before chemoradiotherapy and surgery is well tolerated and shows promising anti-tumour activity and good overall survival rates in patients with poor-risk rectal cancer*.
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