Stories

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...

App-connected medical devices can help patients, while cutting down visits during the pandemic