Unity Health Toronto is one of the first hospitals in Canada to work with Google Cloud to develop a generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) tool to speed up the process of reviewing complex research contracts. The tool aims to reduce turn-around times for clinical trial contracts, resulting in a...

Canadians are increasingly frustrated with a healthcare system lacking seamless communication and information...

In a first-of-its-kind study, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute researcher Dr. Kathleen Martin...

William Osler Health System (Osler) has partnered with McMaster University (McMaster) on a...

Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (RVH) has launched a Home Hemodialysis Program which will provide patients with chronic kidney disease more freedom and options with their treatment plan. “Home hemodialysis provides far more flexibility for patients than in-centre dialysis and can lead to better health outcomes and quality of life,”...

Across Canada, most hospitals and healthcare authorities recognize the need to modernize their systems....

VICTORIA, BC, April 10, 2024 - The Mercy Ships Canada Board of Directors and...

A 37-year-old man collapses on a golf course. He’s rushed by ambulance to the...

Humber River Health (Humber) has identified a core priority of delivering comprehensive, quality care...

Obesity is a risk factor for stillbirth, and the risk increases as pregnancy advances to term, according to a large study published in CMAJ...

Nasal-administered naloxone is more cost-effective and could help reduce the number of opioid-related fatalities compared to the current publicly funded intermuscular version, a new study has found. Since 2016, Canada's opioid crisis has worsened, with over 40,000 opioid-related deaths, or about 22 deaths per day. Most of these accidental deaths (88 per cent) occur in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario. An effective way to help prevent opioid-related deaths is through community pharmacy-based naloxone...

More than 6,000 people are admitted to Fraser Health hospitals for cardiac failure every year. As part of a regional strategy to expand cardiac...

The current nursing shortage, which the Canadian Nurses Association predicted in 2009 would be at 60,000 by 2022, has peaked well beyond that number in 2024. In 2022, two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions quoted a study that...

Crowded hospitals, long wait times and nurse burnout have become common news stories, reinforcing...

With more than 500 fellows, the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario’s (RNAO) Advanced Clinical...

Agnes Leung and Tram Nguyen were excited for a new professional development opportunity. The two...

Introduced during the pandemic, this support service became an invaluable resource for health care...

Memories of the tragedy in Canada’s long-term care (LTC) homes from the pandemic are fading all too fast.  However, this tragedy was not an...

Ethel McGuire has lived in the same East Toronto apartment building for 30 years. For the last 25, she has been the building manager. For Ethel, looking out for the seniors in the building is a natural part of her role. “Just over eight years...

According to research published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, caregivers provide approximately 75 per cent of the care delivered in our healthcare system,...