Infection prevention has always been central to healthcare, but today it’s expanding beyond hand hygiene and PPE to include ...

• Innovative Program for Rare Diseases: The new Coastal Program for Rare Inflammatory Diseases at Vancouver Coastal Health, led by Dr. Luke Chen, is building a collaborative network of researchers and ...

Engineering and health researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a radar and artificial intelligence (AI) system that can monitor multiple people walking in busy hospitals and long-term ...

The Advanced Coronary Treatment (ACT) Foundation is the national charitable organization dedicated to establishing free CPR as a mandatory program in every Canadian high school. The program is built ...

Canada has long invested heavily in big science projects like telescopes and particle accelerators — but largely ignored ...

Canada is burning through its young nurses at an alarming rate as healthcare systems across the country struggle to retain them, reveals a new publication released this morning by the MEI. “For every ...

• AI-powered screening tool: Researchers at UHN developed the Hypermobility Assessment Tool (HAT), an AI-driven smartphone app approved by Health Canada that uses a phone camera to measure joint ...

The Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation (CABHI) has officially launched a new Call for Innovation for its Ignite program, inviting healthcare and research organizations, as well as early-stage ...

1. AI-powered precision blood testing: Dr. Guillaume Paré and his team at Hamilton Health Sciences are using artificial intelligence to develop precision blood tests that can detect hundreds of ...

Confronting Stigma Around Substance Use Disorders. Across Canada, nurses are expected to be calm under pressure, compassionate in crisis, and endlessly resilient. But behind the professionalism and ...

For many of us, getting a vaccine or other routine injection is not a pleasant experience. But there’s something comforting about the injection site being wiped with an alcohol swab. Other than ...

St. Michael’s Hospital, a site of Unity Health Toronto, is the first hospital in Canada to acquire a portable Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanner for patient care that can generate clinical ...