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While often the object of scorn from its capitalistic southern neighbor, the Canada Foundation for Innovation has just awarded Dr. David Kennedy a large research grant to deploy both neuroimaging and genetic markers in the development of personalised treatment for schizophrenia – through a program dubbed “neuroIMAGENE“. Dr. Kennedy suggests that this technological strategy may actually save money in the long run by helping physicians select the proper medication and dosage.
Capitalistic scorn huh? This news comes as the U.S. healthcare flagship GE healthcare flushes its own personalized medicine effort all the while nary a Canadian bank requires bailout largesse. Indeed.
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