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There are robots that deliver the mail and robots that work assembly lines. Some have even pulled duty in the operating room. A doctor in California recently used a mechanical being to tell a patient he had just days to…

A new health app launched this month is raising questions over whether it will help cure doctor shortages or cause health-care complications. The free app, called “Babylon by Telus Health” went live March 5, with a promise it will “complement…

WHO today released a Global Influenza Strategy for 2019-2030 aimed at protecting people in all countries from the threat of influenza. The goal of the strategy is to prevent seasonal influenza, control the spread of influenza from animals to humans,…

Arthur Slutsky (EngSci 7T0, MASc MIE 7T2) chose to study engineering over medicine for a very practical reason. “I have a terrible memory,” he says. “When I saw those anatomy figures, and all the terms you’d have to memorize, I said…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is fundamentally changing how people do business — and introducing challenges that would have been unimaginable just five years ago. So before major corporations take their first steps in designing or adopting AI tools, they call U of…

Professor John W. Senders, who joined the Mechanical & Industrial Engineering (MIE) department in 1974, passed away on February 12, 2019 due to complications from pneumonia, two weeks before his 99th birthday. Senders will be remembered fondly for his many…

An artificial intelligence (AI) programme developed in China that combs through test results, health records and even handwritten notes diagnosed childhood diseases as accurately as doctors, researchers said Monday. From the flu and asthma to life-threatening pneumonia and meningitis, the…

Big Data has been called medicine’s future, with predictions that artificial intelligence helping researchers sift through every blood pressure, every ECG and MRI looking for cures. But there are fears that data mining is ripe for misuse. A survey published…

Nova Scotia paramedics have provided some limited palliative-care services, like medication to help with pain or shortness of breath, review of the care plan and counselling for the family, since 2015. Similar programs exist in P.E.I. and Alberta. Now, other…

The Premier’s Council on Improving Healthcare and Ending Hallway Medicine is releasing its first report, providing an overview of the problem of hallway health care in Ontario. “There’s much to be proud of in our health care system. However, there…