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Stick out your smartphone and say AHHHHH. Although it’s early days for a new wave of telemedicine, some Canadians can now avoid trips to the doctor’s office by using their mobile phone’s video camera. In March, Telus Health launched a…

Peel Region councillors will hear a pitch later today from a doctor who wants to add a new component to their emergency response fleet: defibrillator-carrying drones. Dr. Sheldon Cheskes, medical director at the Sunnybrook Centre for Prehospital Medicine, said drones…

Mobile health apps for consumers and clinicians pose a risk to patients’ privacy, an international study led by the University of Toronto has found. Mobile health apps are a booming market targeted at both patients and health professionals. Some apps…

Some doctors questioned whether restricting access was ethical, while others defended the practice in the interest of other patients who are waiting to be seen. Full article at: CBC News

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…