Arthritis is more than just aches and pains. In fact, among all causes of disability in Canada, arthritis ranks first among women and second among men, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada. The most prevalent type of arthritis ...

To Your Health and Prosperity - An Action Plan to Help Attract More Clinical Trials to Canada is the result of the first ever National Clinical Trials Summit that took place nearly year ago, on September 15, 2011. The Summit ...

Globally, the rate of suicide is increasing at a dramatic rate impacting all age groups, socio-economic levels, cultures and religions. Suicide is now an internationally recognized patient safety issue in health care. In Canada, more attention is gradually being focused ...

  St. Michael’s Hospital is now home to the first fully automated high-throughput zebrafish screening facility in Canada and one of the most advanced screening facilities in the world. The facility is headed by Dr. Xiao-Yan Wen, a global leader in zebrafish ...

Research and innovation make good news stories that appear in national print media every day. When we look across some of these stories, we see many ways in which health research and innovation impact the everyday lives of Canadians. To begin ...

Peel Regional Paramedic Services (PRPS), a recognized leader in prehospital research, will started two new randomized controlled trials in July 2012: the ROC ALPS study (Amidoarone, Lidocaine or Neither for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Due to Ventricular Fibrillation or Ventricular Tachycardia) ...

One of the greatest dangers with any type of cancer is its capacity to spread. Through the emerging fields of DNA methylation and epigenetics, scientists at Lawson Health Research Institute are exploring new areas of genetics that could stop the ...

The battle against child obesity is a high priority in Canada not only from a population health perspective, but from the health care system’s economic perspective as well. Moreover, obesity tracks very closely from childhood to adolescence to adulthood meaning ...

The Public Health Agency of Canada has identified pre-term birth as one of the most important perinatal health problems in industrialized nations. Statistics show it accounts for 75-85 per cent of all perinatal deaths in Canada. Advances in neonatal intensive ...

A dozen colleagues are gathered in the Hospital’s surgical skills room and wait for the ‘Sarcoma Rounds’ to begin. Scientists converse with medical oncologists, orthopaedic surgeons, residents and trainees. They discuss the results of a limb-sparing surgery for a particular ...