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Picture someone who works in tech. They might fit a stereotype: heavy-rimmed glasses, hoodie, T-shirt branded with a startup’s logo, male. You probably don’t imagine a nurse. Yet integrated electronic health records, wearables, health-monitoring apps, artificial intelligence, 3D printers and…

An Uber-like connection that can help get pregnant women in Kenya to health care; a 3D printer project to provide orthotic devices for Nepali children with clubfoot and scoliosis; and a microchip that can figure out what pathogen is causing…

New figures released by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) show that the country’s health spending is forecast to grow by almost 4% in 2017, to $242 billion. This is a slight increase in the rate of health spending…

The Wynne government is getting into the business of providing home care directly, quietly creating a new provincial agency that could eventually serve hundreds of thousands of patients in Ontario, CBC News has learned. The move would mean personal support…

The opposition hammered the governing Liberals over hospital overcrowding during question period at Queen’s Park Tuesday, hours after an exclusive CBC Toronto story revealed that more than 4,300 patients received care in the hallways of Brampton Civic Hospital last year.…

‘We need your help. Stand up, fight for your country to do even better, but defend with pride what you have achieved,’ senator says The marquee event of Bernie Sanders’s tour of Canadian hospitals was a speech yesterday at Convocation…

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders praised Canada’s health care system at a sold-out event at the University of Toronto on Sunday, but also added that it’s not perfect. “No country in the world has all of the answers and never will,…

The longest-serving independent U.S. senator ever and 2016 presidential candidate spoke about what the U.S. can learn about health care from Canada, one day after touring three Toronto hospitals. Full article at: Toronto Star

Ontario is helping more people with HIV/AIDS get the health care they need through a major redevelopment of Casey House, Canada’s first and only free-standing hospital for people living with the disease. Premier Kathleen Wynne was joined today by people…