Rates of breast cancer in women under the age of 50 are rising in Canada according to a study which showed an increase in breast cancer diagnoses among females in their Twenties, Thirties, and Forties. Led by Dr. Jean Seely, this study published in the Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal...

Unity Health Toronto is one of the first hospitals in Canada to work...

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...

Physicians in Canada, especially male physicians, are working fewer hours than they did three decades ago, and these long-term trends must be considered in workforce planning, according to new research in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). “Canadian physicians’ work hours, crucial for health care access and planning, have seen a...

Mixed reality is being introduced to patient care at London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC)...

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

Over the past few years, incidents of violence against healthcare workers has increased worldwide....

Look around you. Have you been inspired, encouraged or empowered by an employee or a...

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

Premature deaths related to opioids doubled between 2019 and 2021 across Canada, with more than one-in-four deaths among young adults aged 20–39 years attributable to opioids, according to new research published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). Opioid-related deaths have continued to increase over the past decade across Canada, with 6222 deaths occurring in 2021. This trend worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic, although the scale and rapidity of increases varied across...

Treatments to help babies who run out of oxygen during pregnancy or at birth (neonatal encephalopathy) are limited. Therapeutic hypothermia is the only option...

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...

William Osler Health System (Osler) has partnered with McMaster University (McMaster) on a system-level transformation project that helps decrease transfers from long-term care homes...

It was around lunchtime and the Geriatric and Medical Rehabilitation unit at Providence was bustling. Jamar Stanton, a patient experience coordinator, had stepped into a patient room to ask a patient about his experience at the hospital when the patient let Stanton know that...

The Coordinated Accessible National (CAN) Health Network, a leading national initiative focused on accelerating Canadian innovation in health care, announced the launch of its...