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At some offices, signs are posted indicating patient visits can only last 15 minutes — so patients are asked to keep their questions and concerns down to one or two issues. The signs are not meant to deter patients from…

Of the explosion of 165,000 health apps now available, 36 account for half of downloads, said Emily Seto, an engineer and health technology specialist at the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation at the University of Toronto. Seto’s Bluetooth-enabled app interface…

Dr. Vahid Sahiholnasab is among a group of entrepreneurs in B.C. who are developing innovative gadgets that can be worn, a rapidly advancing market known as “wearable technology.” Sahiholnasab has designed a pair of high-tech glasses to prevent children from…

The opaque era when hospitals rarely talked about mistakes made on their watch may be on its way out. Dr. Michael Apkon, president and CEO of SickKids, wants people to know that serious errors happen in every hospital. Instead of…

Hamilton patients will benefit from: $10.3 million increase in operating funding for Hamilton Health Sciences $3.6 million increase in operating funding for St. Joseph’s Health Care Hamilton Approximately $10 million to Hamilton Health Sciences Centre, to expand capacity for the…

Canada urgently needs a national strategy to ensure seniors are prescribed appropriate medications because the cost of giving them the wrong drugs has reached nearly $2 billion a year, a new study says. Prof. Steve Morgan of the University of…

Ontario is moving forward to improve access to hospital services for patients in the Fergus community with the release of a request for proposals to prequalified companies to build and finance the new Groves Memorial Community Hospital project. Through this…

Unnecessary hospitalizations due to chronic disease are reaching the tipping point of seriously harming this country’s healthcare system and do not meet the needs of patients and their families, according to a report by the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement…

“If you’re constantly changing your sleep routine, it can have the same effect as giving yourself jetlag,” Michael Grandner, director of the Sleep and Health Research Program at the University of Arizona and one of Fitbit’s three sleep experts, said…

In a blog post on Monday, Google acknowledged health information can be difficult to navigate, and tends to lead people from mild symptoms to scary and unlikely conditions, which can cause anxiety and stress. Google turned to Harvard and the…