St. Michael's Hospital/University of Toronto researchers recently announced the NORTHERN trial - North America's first multi-centre efficacy trial using catheter injection of genes into the heart muscle for the treatment of cardiovascular disease. On August 28, 2002, researchers injected ...

One in nine Canadian women is expected to develop breast cancer in her lifetime and this year alone an estimated 20,500 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer, and 5,400 will die of it. These alarming statistics are the driving ...

Community & Infection Control Association - Canada (CHICA-Canada) continue to declare the third week of October as Infection Control Week. During this week, CHICA-Canada, in conjunction with local health-care facilities and community agencies, promote the many aspects of infection prevention ...

Researchers and designers at Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre Innovative Centre for Studies in Aging are finding more practical ways to make life easier for the elderly and their caregivers. RoboNurse, a new lifting device developed by Dr. ...

The tragedy of Walkerton has emphasized the importance of bacteria as an agent causing disease in our society. In May 2000, seven people died after a terrible rainstorm washed E. coli bacteria from cattle manure into a shallow town well. ...

The tragedy of Walkerton has emphasized the importance of bacteria as an agent causing disease in our society. In May 2000, seven people died after a terrible rainstorm washed E. coli bacteria from cattle manure into a shallow town well. ...

Bob Rozman knows firsthand about the reality of prostate cancer. "When I turned 50 years old, my wife Kathy insisted I start to go to the doctor regularly and get every test in the book for prostate cancer." The London, ...

A major study on selective dorsal rhizotomy - a complex, neurosurgery used to improve walking in some children with cerebral palsy - suggests that it may not be more effective than a series of orthopedic surgeries used to treat the ...

Infection control in a long-term care facility is the art of balancing the measures that need to be taken to reduce the risk of infection to a frail and vulnerable population while at the same time ensuring there is minimal ...

Over the past decade, there has been an explosion in clinical research, largely because society is demanding it. While most patient-based research occurs in adults, there is a need and an obligation to also conduct clinical research in children. For one ...