Medical Community Noticing Winnipeg Doc's Kidney Failure Model
A Winnipeg doctor's study on preventing kidney failure is getting recognition in the medical community.
Dr. Navdeep Tangri created a model to predict kidney failure, which was developed at the Seven Oaks Hospital Chronic Disease Innovation Centre.
Tangri developed an equation which can be used to predict which patients are at risk of kidney failure.
It uses a patient's urine, sex, age and kidney function measurement to give a two and five-year probability of treated kidney failure for patients living with chronic kidney disease.
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ACC Skills Challenge
Assiniboine Community College's Parkland campus will be hosting a skills competition for high school students tomorrow focusing on business, carpentry, and health care.
Director Gabe Mercier says students are coming from surrounding communities, like Grandview and Dauphin, possibly Gilbert Plains, as well as Birtle, and Waywayseecappo.
Mercier says this is the first time they`re offering a health care challenge.
"We're having interest from students in the schools in health care and so this is a chance to expose students to the health care field."
ACC Parkland has held this type of skills competition before, but didn't last year. Mercier says they're expecting about 40 students.
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From NDP to Liberal
A northern Manitoba man has left the executive of the provincial New Democrats to run for the Liberals in the coming election.
Tyler Duncan was nominated yesterday as the Liberal candidate in The Pas. He ran unsuccessfully for NDP president last March, at the age of 19.
He was backed by leadership hopeful Steve Ashton, but both men were unsuccessful in their bids.
Duncan was later elected as a member at large of the NDP executive, and his name was only pulled from the party web site yesterday.
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Notley Responds to O'Leary's Offer
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is dishing out her own two cents at celebrity money guru Kevin O'Leary, who claims he's so concerned about what the NDP premier is doing to Alberta's petro-economy, he'll invest a million dollars in the oilpatch if she'll quit.
Notley's has responded by noting the last time a group of Conservative businessmen went to the media to tell Albertans how not to vote, she won May's provincial election.
She suggests if O'Leary wants to go down that path again, then -- quote -- "bring it on.''
