Stories

Active New Brunswick teen living with T1D is reassured knowing her MiniMed 780G insulin pump will be covered when she turns 25.

New technology from Medtronic is helping to reduce the need for people with T1D to constantly calculate, strategize and correct.

Clare Lane is one of the first Canadian patients to obtain robotic-assisted spinal surgery with the Medtronic Mazor X system at QEll Health Sciences Centre.

An implanted electronic device about the size of a toonie has helped Deberah Witteveen reclaim her life and overcome a debilitating medical condition few people want to discuss.

For new President of Medtronic Canada, ‘no better place to be’

‘Everything starts with education’

Two generations of Type 1 Diabetes patients benefitting from the life-changing impact of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices.

It’s important to know the facts about type 1 diabetes — including that more than 300,000 Canadians have the disease; that Canada is one of the fastest-growing countries for type 1 diagnoses...

You don’t have to know Chris Jarvis for long before understanding that he’s always up for a challenge—and never backs down from one. So it’s fitting that when the Olympic rower started an...

As an adult, Chloe Vance was flying solo with her diabetes—celebrating the successes alone and navigating the challenges by herself. By 2008, she knew she wanted to create a diabetes community...

Meet Osmond – an unforgettable Medtronic patient – managing symptoms of cerebral palsy with two Medtronic therapies.

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) is becoming an increasingly common and cost-effective alternative to open-heart surgery that benefits patients and decreases...

System “brings OR” to remotely located specialist for virtual support

It was a discovery that changed the lives of millions of people in Canada and around the world. In the summer of 1921, a team at the University of Toronto began a new experimental approach to...

Helping people living with type 1 diabetes access the benefits of hybrid closed loop technology Medtronic Canada is now offering broader access to integrated hybrid closed loop (HCL) technology...

We may reach retirement, but our hearts don’t get a break. In fact once we reach 65, approximately 20 percent of us will experience aortic stenosis, a hardening or narrowing of the aortic...

Cardiologist Dr. Blandine Mondésert feels like she’s working at the edge of a new medical frontier where remote heart monitoring and programming devices and technology will eventually help...