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Sea Quest Hero is more than just the usual computer game in which players find their way through mazes, shoot and chase creatures — it also doubles as scientists’ latest tool for studying Alzheimer’s disease. The game — downloadable from…
Drones soon will be used in Tanzania to deliver medicines to health facilities across the East African country, continuing a trend of African governments embracing drone networks to deliver critical services. Full article at: CTV News
When Melanie Marcus’ son came home from summer camp with a stomach ache, she didn’t take him to a clinic. Instead, the Toronto mother of two turned on her computer to access a doctor online. “I logged on and immediately…
Here’s my bottom line: For Canada to thrive, we need to improve the health of our most vulnerable people. To do so successfully, we need Canada’s doctors to be actively engaged in population health. We entered medical school with a…
David Parker’s idea to offer virtual reality therapy began at Christmas. The IT consultant received a virtual reality headset as a gift. He first used them to take his wife’s grandmother to Venice, gliding through the canals on a gondola. Then…
A Toronto paramedic says recent “glitches” with a new software scheduler for city crews is putting “public safety at risk.” Mike Merriman, who has been an emergency care worker for the past 26 years, told AM 640’s Kelly Cutrara that…
A new technology developed by a multidisciplinary team at the University of Toronto is designed to help calm and engage long-term care residents with dementia and with that, improve their quality of life. Ambient Activity Technologies (AAT) are interactive tools…
Doctors are sounding the alarm about the chronic shortage of physicians and health-care services in northern Ontario. After a Health Quality Ontario report found that people in Ontario’s north have a shorter life expectancy and are more likely to die…
Prof. Aleman is the first President since founding President Omond Solandt in 1958-59 to serve two terms. Full article at: MIE Newsletter
Health care is perhaps Canada’s defining obsession. As a nation, we crow about it and complain about it. We deify Tommy Douglas, rage about wait times, fret over private clinics and fight campaigns on minute points of privatization. But for…
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