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It’s 9 a.m. in Hamilton’s lower city, and Dr. Christian Kraeker starts his day with a medical bag in his trunk and a car stereo full of tunes. Kraeker and Tim O’Shea, another McMaster University doctor, have started HamSmart (Hamilton…
Prof. Michael Carter, a faculty affiliate of the Centre for Healthcare Engineering at UofT is a member of the Health Innovation Team for the project entitled: Intelligent Scheduling to Reduce MRI and CT Wait Times. Full article at: Ministry of…
Depression is the leading cause of ill health and disability worldwide. According to the latest estimates from WHO, more than 300 million people are now living with depression, an increase of more than 18% between 2005 and 2015. Lack of…
The Global Patient Safety Challenge on Medication Safety aims to address the weaknesses in health systems that lead to medication errors and the severe harm that results. It lays out ways to improve the way medicines are prescribed, distributed and…
A new report suggests three out of four Canadians are getting treated within recommended time frames when it comes to certain priority procedures. However, the numbers also show regional differences, indicating that not all Canadians are getting equal access to…
How long you’ll wait to get cataract surgery or a hip replacement could vary widely depending on where you live, according to a new report examining healthcare wait times in Canada. The report released Tuesday by the Canadian Institute for Health…
ATMs and coffee shops such as Tim Hortons, Starbucks and Second Cup make ideal locations for placing automated external defibrillators (AEDs), according to a new study led by U of T Engineering researchers Professor Timothy Chan (MIE) and Christopher Sun…
When 9-year-old Tess Baird landed at Sick Kids for surgery on a badly broken finger she was terrified. “The big lights, all the big machines. I was really scared,” she said. To put her mind at ease, hospital staff gave…
The study involved 264 people with high blood pressure and an average age of 58. The subjects’ average blood pressure began at around 140/90 mmHg, meaning they had what is clinically known as stage 1 hypertension. Most were already taking…
A drone network could be deployed to speed defibrillators to bystanders trying to help people in cardiac arrest, getting the devices to the patient faster than emergency services, a recent Canadian study suggests. Researchers examined historical data on 53,702 cardiac…
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