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Ontario’s Liberal government has introduced legislation aimed at improving patient care which calls for some major changes to the $50-billion health-care system. The 14 Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) set up by the Liberals will be given an expanded role…

Quebec hospitals keep emergency room patients waiting longer than anywhere else in the Western world, according to a report by the province’s independent health watchdog. In a scathing final briefing before his position is abolished by Quebec’s Health Minister, Health…

Fifty-three student startups have been accepted into the 2016 cohort of U of T Engineering’s Entrepreneurship Hatchery accelerator program, the highest number since the program began in 2012. Here are three Hatchery startups — both starting out and on their…

Ontario has pledged to spend $222 million over three years to improve health care for First Nations, especially in the north where aboriginal leaders declared a state of emergency because of a growing number of suicides. The Liberal government also…

Sometimes, it can take weeks to get an appointment to see your family doctor. If you go to a walk-in clinic, waits can often stretch for hours. In a world where smartphones are changing how we bank, commute and communicate,…

Factors such as loneliness, depression and having broken a bone recently are more likely to predict a person’s risk of dying in the next five years, researchers at the University of Chicago found. “The healthiest people were obese and robust,”…

The Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement, a non-profit group that works with health-care providers to improve the system, has released results from a program it launched in 2014. CFHI’s senior director, Kaye Phillips, says about 62 per cent of seniors…

Residents are a big part of the medical system and their post grad training includes taking care of hospitalized patients. Typically, they do one month rotations on a hospital ward before transferring care to another resident and moving on. A…

Ottawa’s Lesley Fleming was diagnosed with Lyme disease in July 2013 by a doctor in Plattsburg, N.Y., after years of going to Canadian doctors to try and find out why she was experiencing severe eye inflammation, headaches and fatigue. She…

University of Toronto researchers have found that caregivers are at a high risk of developing clinical depression up to a year after their critically ill patients leave the intensive care unit (ICU). The study, published in the New England Journal…