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The University Hill Corp., a Syracuse non-profit organization represents hospitals and academic institutions, is hoping to target Ontarians who need everything from from knee replacement surgeries to colonoscopies. “We recognize that some of the procedures which are most in demand…

The R&D Blueprint is a global strategy and preparedness plan to ensure that targeted R&D can strengthen the emergency response by bringing medical technologies to patients during epidemics. The Blueprint aims to reduce the time between the declaration of an…

Facing the biggest overhaul in a generation, Ontario’s “fragmented” $50-billion health-care system will finally bring family doctors under closer control while blowing up its broken home-care network. Queen’s Park is unveiling long-awaited proposals Thursday to streamline the way elderly and…

WHO today launched a new comprehensive analysis of global health trends since 2000 and an assessment of the challenges for the next 15 years. “Health in 2015: from MDGs to SDGs” identifies the key drivers of progress in health under…

Health Minister Dr. Jane Philpott says when she sits down with her provincial counterparts her focus will be less on how much more money Ottawa needs to give to the provinces and more about reforms to the health-care system. Philpott…

In just four years, Saskatchewan has gone from having the worst surgical wait times in the country at 29 weeks to the shortest at 13.6 weeks, according to a new report by the Fraser Institute. “It just shows that when…

“Mom used to love playing cards, and we’d get the grand-kids together, and we’d come to the hospice. We’d be able to have a great, comfortable setting where we could all sit at the table, play cards and have fun,”…

Two separate reports being released Tuesday have used different strategies to reach the same conclusion — Canada’s health care wait times leave much to be desired. The Wait Time Alliance, a group consisting of major doctor’s associations across the country,…

Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk detailed Wednesday how the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care fell behind on its critical-incident and complaint inspections across the province, because of a doubling in the number of complaints between December 2013 and March 2015.…

Michael Garron was born at the hospital in 1962. He died at age 13 after seven years of living with a rare soft tissue cancer called synovial sarcoma. Before his death, Myron and Berna Garron, Michael’s parents, promised him he…