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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…

On any given day, at least 1,000 people are being treated in Ontario hospital hallways, according to the special adviser on health care, who says “tough decisions” will be required to fix the problem. The first report from Dr. Rueben…

Big data holds enormous promise for improving human health. Tahir Janmohamed (Skoll CompE 0T4 + MBA 0T6) aims to harness that power — but he believes that too often the approach is completely backward. “One of the biggest issues that…

Professor Levente Diosady (ChemE) has been named an Officer of the Order of Canada, and Dr. Arthur Slutsky (EngSci 7T0, MASc MIE 7T2) has been named a Member of the Order of Canada. Dr. Arthur Slutsky was honoured “for his contributions to the research…

The Honourable Ginette Petitpas Taylor, Minister of Health, tabled in Parliament a Framework on Palliative Care in Canada. The Framework will help support improved access to palliative care by providing a useful reference point for governments, stakeholders, caregivers and communities…

Millions of Canadians rely on surgically implanted medical devices in order to function — to do everything from walk without pain to pump blood through their veins. Yet many of those devices are approved for use in Canada with scant…

Nicole Sultanum says one of the fastest ways to understand information is by sight. “We’re much faster at recognizing patterns,” says Sultanum, a University of Toronto PhD student in the department of computer science and its Dynamic Graphics Project lab.…

As hospital emergency wait times continue to increase in Canada, Professor Goldie Nejat (MIE) believes machine intelligence and robotics can play a key role in easing the strain by streamlining the delivery of health care. In July, two identical semi-humanoid…