For the first time, a new study has estimated life expectancy across neighbourhoods in Canada’s largest cities – the first in Canada to drill down below the levels of provinces and cities to census tracts, the smallest level of geography that can support estimates of life expectancy. The results are...

Each time a person enters a hospital, they entrust their care providers to...

According to the Canadian Cancer Society, lung cancer is the deadliest form of...

Miscarriage, or early pregnancy loss, can have devastating emotional effects, but it is...

Symptoms of anxiety and depression associated with a fear of cancer recurrence can cause real distress in an understudied population A new study by Concordia researchers suggests that one-third of adult survivors of childhood cancer experience a fear of cancer recurrence so severe that it can seriously impact their daily...

Researchers at Lawson Health Research Institute and Western University are using a new brain...

Canadian vaccination programs could switch to a 1-dose gender-neutral human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination approach...

If you stand outside Humber River Health, you’ll see a steady stream of Ubers,...

With the support of donor funding, St. Michael’s Hospital has opened a state-of-the-art hybrid...

Scurvy, or vitamin C deficiency, is not just an 18th-century seafarers’ disease, as a case study of a 65-year-old woman with mobility issues and...

Advancements in technology play a crucial role in health care breakthroughs and holds significant potential for the future. Researchers at Sunnybrook are using emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to advance the diagnosis, treatments and outcomes of some of the world’s most debilitating diseases.  Improving screening for oral cancer Oral cancer is a form of head and neck cancer, affecting more than 5,000 Canadians per year. Progression of the disease can drastically...

Study shows that despite some improvements, potentially inappropriate medications are still heavily prescribed to seniors in Canada and some are on the rise. In Canada,...

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...

The Canadian Association of Pediatric Nurses (CAPN) is a national network of nurses passionate...

Coming out of the pandemic, Canada’s health care system found many new challenges and...

Infoway has conducted the fourth national survey of Canadian nurses on the use of...

Honourable Mention: Anna Jalosinski, Alberta Health Services Anna is one of the respected charge...

n an episode of the popular Netflix show “Grace and Frankie,” Frankie (played by the formidable Lily Tomlin) is navigating a world built for...

The prevalence of Carbapenemase-producing organisms (CPO) is increasing in B.C. with new cases reported in both long-term care homes and hospitals.  To better protect long-term care residents from a common superbug that can cause serious illness, we are proactively screening for CPO in owned and...

After a year of living with a tube that delivered food directly to his stomach, John Schonewille, then 66, had begun to despair that...