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A University of Toronto startup seeking to improve communication between patients and hospitals has received $250,000 in funding from a southern Ontario local health integration network. The Waterloo-Wellington LHIN said Friday the funding would be used by Dash MD to…

Publicly funded prescription drugs under a universal pharmacare program would provide better health care to Canadians at a lower cost than the status quo, the House of Commons health committee declared Wednesday after two years of work and some 99…

Ontario is making long-term care homes more transparent for families across the province. Starting today, a new tool will help families easily find the performance levels for Ontario’s 627 long-term care homes online. Each year, long-term care homes are inspected…

Toronto is nearing the “tipping point” in its quest to become a leading hub for health innovation – a development that promises to help modernize an aging Canadian health-care system while giving the broader economy a shot in the arm. Zayna…

A group that advocates for Ontario doctors says the provincial government has created a crisis in health care through years of neglect and mismanagement. The result has been a marked decline in the quality of patient care, Dr. Kulvinder Gill, president of Concerned Ontario…

Canadians and Americans are often fixated on each other’s health systems – so much so that it makes it hard for Canadians to admit and discuss our own system’s failings, writes Dr. Danielle Martin in a New York Times oped. “More robust dialogue is…

Transformative Investment in Life-Saving Care for Children Ontario’s Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is already one of the world’s largest and most respected pediatric hospitals. It has transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of children and their families across…

Premier Kathleen Wynne said Wednesday her government will spend $2.1 billion over the next four years to rebuild Ontario’s mental health system — the latest in a string of funding announcements the opposition parties are calling an attempt by the…

In a report last week, Ontario’s fiscal watchdog said the province’s health care spending is not keeping pace with the demands of a growing and aging population. And across the province, chronic hospital bed shortages and backlog have been deemed…

Today Premier Kathleen Wynne announced the government is supporting the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) to bring its mental health and special needs services for children together under one roof. This will provide better care for patients and reduce…