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While some older people may indeed be experiencing both longer and healthier lives, these people are likely to have come from more advantaged segments of society. “People from disadvantaged backgrounds, those in poorer countries, those with the fewest opportunities and…

Some previous research said computer technology could serve almost as a second set of eyes for doctors. But some of these earlier studies involved adding computer detection to mammograms using outdated film X-rays, not more advanced digital X-rays now used…

Fighting cancer has long been considered an educated guessing game, where physicians pick a therapy and hope that it helps eradicate a tumour. But doctors at the BC Cancer Agency are developing new techniques to treat cancer using DNA analysis…

The technique could give rise to a proliferation of new so-called point-of-care medical tests — blood tests that can be performed in the field, possibly even by patients themselves, and that yield results in minutes. Read full article at CBC…

The technology uses a complicated combination of virtual reality and computer algorithms to electrically stimulate the muscles in the legs so that the patient can walk by simply thinking about walking. Read full article at Global News

The new attending nurse practitioners will be the onsite primary care provider for patients. Working as part of a team of health professionals, these new nurses will help strengthen the care that residents receive in long-term care homes and the…

The phenomenon has been dubbed “post-intensive care syndrome.” It is a constellation of symptoms that can include devastating muscle weakness, cognitive dysfunction on the order of early Alzheimer’s disease or moderate traumatic brain injury, anxiety, depression and full-blown post-traumatic stress…

Quebec researchers who secretly recorded how often staff entered or left an operating room during 100 hip or knee replacements — procedures that require a “particularly aseptic environment” — found the doors were opened as many as 176 times in…

The Conference Board of Canada study, commissioned by the Canadian Medical Association (CMA), says that it would cost the federal government $3.3 billion in the next year to implement three strategies to cope with the wave of aging baby boomers.…

On Friday, Health Quality Ontario and the Canadian Patient Safety Institute released Never Events for Hospital Care in Canada, a report that represents the first national consensus document on a list of events that health care institutions must work to…