Discovery of new genes for molar pregnancies sheds light on their increased incidence in women aged 35 and over

Major advances made at the RI-MUHC could help improve counselling for individuals suffering from infertility, premature ovarian insufficiency, recurrent miscarriages and androgenetic hydatidiform mole. A molar pregnancy, also known as a hydatidiform mole, is an abnormal human pregnancy with no embryo and an overgrowth of the cells that form the...

Personalized home evaluation tool for older adults and people with disabilities wins national competition

Canadian startup Incluzia Inc. has won the 2024 AGE-WELL National Impact Challenge: Solutions...

Robot gives surgeons a “leg up” on hip replacements

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Nurse practitioners delivering ‘innovative solutions’

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Generating MRI images from ultrasounds scans

A recent study led by Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute researcher Dr. Ilker Hacihaliloglu is the first to test the viability of a selection of image-to-image synthesizing technologies used to generate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images from ultrasound scans of prostate cancer.  Within the past two years, researchers have made...

The evolution of radiology in Canadian healthcare

As the development of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to accelerate, it is becoming increasingly...

The Importance of Long-Term Disability Coverage for Part-Time Healthcare Workers

In the ever-changing landscape of healthcare, professionals face unique challenges that can impact their...

Behind the research: How a next-generation helmet could revolutionize focused ultrasound

In 2015, Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) scientists and clinicians performed a world-first: They successfully...

Early Talent, Big Impact: Powering the Future of Healthcare Technology Innovation

Rapid innovations in technology, particularly AI, have many worried that machines will threaten their...
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Partnership opens new patient pathway for cardiac care

Unity Health Toronto and Oak Valley Health are creating a streamlined care pathway to provide patients with timely access to advanced cardiac procedures and...

RVH’s emergency department Minor Ailment Patient Pathway

Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre’s (RVH) Emergency Department (ED) is well prepared to serve...

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The Peer Support and Trauma Response program at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)...

AI tools to ease administrative burdens in ER

Unity Health Toronto has received $200 thousand in funding from Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners (TIAP) under its Critical Technologies Program, to scale homegrown AI tools that support workforce planning in health care. One of the tools, the Emergency Department (ED) Nurse Assignment tool, has reduced the time it takes to assign up to 27 nurses to their roles for each shift from three hours to 15 minutes or less...

Headwaters Health Care Centre opens modern, renovated hemodialysis unit

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NURSING

Boost to nurse practitioner program supports primary health care

Fifteen more nurse practitioners (NPs) will be trained at the University of Victoria this fall, helping boost the number of professionals able to offer primary health care to the more than 800,000 British Columbians without a family doctor. New funding of $532,500 from the BC...

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LONGTERM CARE

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