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

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

Efforts to promote safer opioid prescribing in Canada appear to be having an effect, as new research in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) shows a decrease in opioid dispensing between 2018 ...

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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 ...

• Culture of Zero Harm: Since 2019, Mackenzie Health has led a comprehensive cultural transformation toward “zero harm,” embedding patient safety, transparency, and accountability into every level of ...

• 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 ...

Jennifer Crawford (standing) and Kathleen Power are optimistic that an artificial intelligence tool developed by the Data Analytics department can help Waypoint managers and schedulers handle sick ...

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 ...

Construction of The Peter Gilgan Mississauga Hospital and Shah Family Hospital for Women and Children will meet unprecedented health care demand, reimagine the future of care, and bolster the local ...

Antibiotic resistant bacteria inside a biofilm, 3D illustration. Biofilm is a community of bacteria where they aquire antibiotic resistance and communicate with each other by quorum sensing molecules ...

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 ...