Posts By: kwong

The opaque era when hospitals rarely talked about mistakes made on their watch may be on its way out. Dr. Michael Apkon, president and CEO of SickKids, wants people to know that serious errors happen in every hospital. Instead of…

Hamilton patients will benefit from: $10.3 million increase in operating funding for Hamilton Health Sciences $3.6 million increase in operating funding for St. Joseph’s Health Care Hamilton Approximately $10 million to Hamilton Health Sciences Centre, to expand capacity for the…

Canada urgently needs a national strategy to ensure seniors are prescribed appropriate medications because the cost of giving them the wrong drugs has reached nearly $2 billion a year, a new study says. Prof. Steve Morgan of the University of…

Ontario is moving forward to improve access to hospital services for patients in the Fergus community with the release of a request for proposals to prequalified companies to build and finance the new Groves Memorial Community Hospital project. Through this…

Unnecessary hospitalizations due to chronic disease are reaching the tipping point of seriously harming this country’s healthcare system and do not meet the needs of patients and their families, according to a report by the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement…

“If you’re constantly changing your sleep routine, it can have the same effect as giving yourself jetlag,” Michael Grandner, director of the Sleep and Health Research Program at the University of Arizona and one of Fitbit’s three sleep experts, said…

In a blog post on Monday, Google acknowledged health information can be difficult to navigate, and tends to lead people from mild symptoms to scary and unlikely conditions, which can cause anxiety and stress. Google turned to Harvard and the…

A Toronto retiree who underwent nine surgeries in the span of five years says navigating Ontario’s health system is a nightmare. The 70-year-old retired IT executive wonders if the bad outcome and big expense to taxpayers could have been avoided…

Ontario is providing up to $7 million in funding to improve cardiac services at St. Mary’s General Hospital. This investment will complete the current arrhythmia program by adding an electrophysiology suite and recovery areas, as well as expanding cardiac services…