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The period between exposure to the new coronavirus that originated in China and symptoms is 5.2 days on average, but varies greatly among patients, according to one of the largest studies yet published on the deadly epidemic. While admitting that…
The Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy surveys fill important information gaps by polling patients and providers in 11 developed countries. The 2019 edition focuses on primary care physicians and provides an important perspective on how well primary care — a…
Some of the main downtown areas that are hot spots include Queen and Bay, Spadina and Dundas as well as Gerrard and Jarvis. At present, no one regulates where the defibrillators are installed in Ontario. Timothy Chan created a mathematical…
A Google artificial intelligence system proved as good as expert radiologists at detecting which women had breast cancer based on screening mammograms and showed promise at reducing errors, researchers in the United States and Britain reported. The study, published in…
Keynote Arjumand Siddiqi, Canada Research Chair in Population Health Equity and Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health Panel Dr. Dave Chokshi, Vice President and Chief Population Health Officer at NYC Health + Hospitals Andrew Boozary, Executive Director of Health and Social…
Four U of T Engineering professors and one alumnus are included in the latest cohort of individuals to be elected fellows of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC). The appointments honour their exceptional contributions to engineering in Canada. “On behalf…
If you have dreams of reading a book or taking a nap while your self-driving car safely navigates city streets, you will have to wait awhile. That’s according to Professor Birsen Donmez who works in the field of Human Factors,…
On a typical day, Ottawa hospitals spend more than a quarter of a million dollars caring for patients who are occupying beds they don’t really need. Over the course of a week, the cost of caring for those so-called “bed…
The first Ontario Health Team, the program introduced by the provincial government to replace the Local Health Integrated Networks, was announced by the Minister of Health in Ottawa on Friday. The team, known as the Ottawa Health Team, is one…
A research team from Waterloo hopes its newest wearable tech could soon be helping surgeons in the operating room. The “Tip-Tap” looks like something from the sci-fi movie Minority Report — metal tags worn directly on the hand, or in…
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