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An essay in the British Medical Journal urges doctors and patients to start thinking differently about what it means to be returned to health. Ian Hargraves, lead author of “Towards regeneration: The evolution of medicine from fighting to rebuilding,” says…
A crossover between the worlds of gaming and medicine has the potential to cut training time in operating rooms by half and dramatically change the way surgical teams operate in the future, according to the head of neurosurgery in Nova…
Canada’s nurses unveiled a new study today – the first of its kind in Canada – that reveals the number of people in Canada who die or fall ill because prescription medications are unaffordable. The study, entitled Body Count, confirms…
MIE professors Chi-Guhn Lee, Michael Carter, and Vahid Sarhangian (on the left side of the photo, with graduate and undergraduate students on the right) of the Centre for Healthcare Engineering start a three-year project entitled “Quantitative Metrics and Methods for…
For appropriately qualified MEng or undergraduate students at the Faculty of Engineering, here are two potential projects that would be supervised by Prof Mike Carter (mike.carter@utoronto.ca). Please contact Prof Carter to discuss if you are interested, and be ready to…
professor of clinical neuropsychology at the University of Moncton says a computer application she developed could help doctors better predict the risk of dementia — and take some of the pressure off New Brunswick’s medical system. Sarah Pakzad has spent…
Alberta doctors are lauding a new initiative that has essentially eliminated the wait to see gastrointestinal specialists. The Enhanced Primary Care Pathways program links family doctors with specialists to both eliminate unnecessary referrals, and help patients with non-urgent concerns receive…
A University of Toronto startup seeking to improve communication between patients and hospitals has received $250,000 in funding from a southern Ontario local health integration network. The Waterloo-Wellington LHIN said Friday the funding would be used by Dash MD to…
Publicly funded prescription drugs under a universal pharmacare program would provide better health care to Canadians at a lower cost than the status quo, the House of Commons health committee declared Wednesday after two years of work and some 99…
Reporting to the Director of Innovation and Improvement, Clinical Operations Support you will be responsible for working with program and service leaders and front line teams to make sustainable, positive changes to operations and quality of care at the Scarborough…
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