September
Daily Media Digest September 18, 2018
Insulin may ward off infections Varsity “For Dr. Sue Tsai and Dr. Dan Winer at the University Health Network (UHN), insulin is the gift that keeps on giving. “In [our] field a lot of people […]
Year: 2018
September
Daily Media Digest September 17, 2018
Libin Cardiovascular Institute has million-dollar weekend UCalgary News “Photos by Adrian Shellard, for the University of Calgary … of Companies, far left, and Ken King of the Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corporation, …” TAGS: fundraising, […]
September
Daily Media Digest September 14, 2018
Is that ‘midlife crisis’ really Alzheimer’s disease? National Post “Author: Carmela Tartaglia, Clinician-Scientist, University Health Network and Associate Professor, University of Toronto. Imagine you tell your 55 …” TAGS: Alzheimer’s Disease, pathology, diagnosis Western […]
September
Daily Media Digest September 13, 2018
Inhaled version of blood pressure drug shows promise in treating anxiety, pain Canada NewsWire (press release) “The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is Canada’s largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital and a […]
September
Daily Media Digest September 12, 2018
App developers are using artificial intelligence to advise teens about their health The Globe and Mail “… Frank Rudzicz, a University of Toronto professor and researcher at University Health Network who specializes in machine learning […]
Guest Blog
Good for patients, good for health-care system: A better way to schedule
York-led research determines a better approach to scheduling, which leads to improved profits, higher practitioner utilization and decreased wait times. Practitioners, policy-makers and hospital administrators will be interested in this highly applicable research. (View online) […]
Guest Blog
Want to improve health outcomes of older adults in hospital? – Ask a nurse
Researchers conduct focus groups with nurses on how to prevent the decline of hospitalized older people. They discover some communications strategies that will be of interest to hospital administrators and health-care practitioners. (View online) Individuals […]
Guest Blog
Big Ideas Lecture Series: Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) at UHN
September 19 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm In February of 2015, the Canadian Supreme Court handed down a decision that made physician-aid-in-dying a legal option for certain categories of patients, and legislation governing eligibility […]
September
Daily Media Digest September 11, 2018
Lawson Health Research Institute to receive federal funding for homelessness prevention Globalnews.ca “A local agency is about to get a cash infusion from the federal government. The parliamentary secretary to the minister of Families, Children […]
September
Daily Media Digest September 10, 2018
All of Toronto is getting older, but it’s tougher to age in the suburbs Toronto Star “… people, both downtown and in the suburbs, said Samir K. Sinha, director of geriatrics at Sinai Health System […]