Health
Recent stories about health
Jasper Place builds 'symbiotic' community-business relationship
A business association in Edmonton is testing whether building belonging can be good for both the community and the bottom line with a new micro-grant program that focuses on community resources, transforming existing assets, creating events, and launching pilot projects.
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Student with two startups among winners at ASTech Awards
A University of Alberta student who has co-founded two startups — one that decentralizes plastics recycling and another that uses AI to better understand the shape of wounds — was among the recipients of this year's ASTech Awards.
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Celero Global announces Edmonton as HQ during Life Sciences Week
A Singapore-based company that cuts costs for small- and medium-sized biotech firms is setting up its North American headquarters in Edmonton.
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Theragraph gets boost to make patient data easier to analyze
A young Edmonton startup has received a $250,000 grant from Pfizer Canada to test a product that compresses years of patient history into a more digestible visualization.
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Darkhorse Analytics helps U.S. project visualize public health data
An Edmonton analytics company has partnered with a Michigan university to produce a comparative visualized database to equip policymakers and service providers with actionable insights to improve public health.
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Listening project to gauge sense of well-being at transit centres
An unorthodox research initiative called Auricle is returning to Edmonton this year to learn more about how safe and well people feel in transit centres.
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Ciba Health picks Edmonton for Canadian headquarters
An American virtual healthcare service is basing its Canadian operations in Edmonton, citing the city's strong health-innovation ecosystem.
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Three Edmonton companies win big at Inventures
Kello Inclusive, UpRow, and Nyah Health won pitch competitions held during the Inventures conference in Calgary.
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True Angle's pivot to clinician market paid off, says CEO
After changing its business model, product, and customer base, True Angle is now in a better place to grow and expand, says the Edmonton health-tech company's CEO.
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