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Date: Thursday, 12 November 2015 Venue: The Gibson Centre, 63 Tupper Street West, Alliston, Ontario L9R 1E4 Free Public Lecture Youth, Mental Health & Diabetes – Gaps and Implications Dr. Margaret Hahn MD, PhD, FRCPC – Assistant Professor, Department of…
Ontario’s $4.7 million investment in this project means that patients in Espanola and the surrounding community will benefit from: An expanded and redesigned emergency department with nearly double the patient capacity, including 11 treatment rooms compared to the previous six…
Here is new information on the project option for the MEng Certificate in Healthcare Engineering at the University of Toronto.
A hospital that lets patients video chat with nurses and has supplies delivered by robots is preparing to open its doors in Toronto next month. The hospital’s Chief Operating Officer Barb Collins told CTV’s Canada Am that the digital vision…
While some older people may indeed be experiencing both longer and healthier lives, these people are likely to have come from more advantaged segments of society. “People from disadvantaged backgrounds, those in poorer countries, those with the fewest opportunities and…
Some previous research said computer technology could serve almost as a second set of eyes for doctors. But some of these earlier studies involved adding computer detection to mammograms using outdated film X-rays, not more advanced digital X-rays now used…
Fighting cancer has long been considered an educated guessing game, where physicians pick a therapy and hope that it helps eradicate a tumour. But doctors at the BC Cancer Agency are developing new techniques to treat cancer using DNA analysis…
The technique could give rise to a proliferation of new so-called point-of-care medical tests — blood tests that can be performed in the field, possibly even by patients themselves, and that yield results in minutes. Read full article at CBC…
The technology uses a complicated combination of virtual reality and computer algorithms to electrically stimulate the muscles in the legs so that the patient can walk by simply thinking about walking. Read full article at Global News
The new attending nurse practitioners will be the onsite primary care provider for patients. Working as part of a team of health professionals, these new nurses will help strengthen the care that residents receive in long-term care homes and the…
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