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A mothballed northwestern Toronto facility has been getting a multimillion dollar makeover after sitting mostly vacant for more than two years. On Sunday, the hospital is slated to reopen with a new name and a new mandate. The Reactivation Care Centre…
Today, Dr. Eric Hoskins, Minister of Health and Long-Term Care issued the following statement on the Auditor General’s reports. Full article at: Minister of Health and Long-Term Care
Long waits for a key cancer diagnosis procedure, underuse of radiation therapy and expensive trips to the United States for stem cell transplants are some of the health-care issues being highlighted by Ontario’s auditor general in her annual report. Part…
The amount of time most Canadians spend waiting in emergency departments to be admitted to hospital is on the rise, new data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) shows. The emergency department (ED) length of stay for people…
With just over 413,100 people living with dementia in Australia and 244 joining that number every day, new technologies being trialled in Canada to reduce challenging behaviours are welcome news. Dementia represents a large group of illnesses that cause a…
More than half a million Canadians live with dementia — and that number is expected to almost double in the next 15 years. Dementia is a degenerative disease described by symptoms including memory loss and difficulties with thinking, problem-solving or…
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…
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