Baycrest has launched the Canadian Caregiver Assessment and Resource Tool (C-CART), a free online tool available 24/7 to help caregivers access the resources, services, education and guidance they ...

Healthcare is a dynamic, demanding and often unpredictable environment to work in. Depending on the specific job, health care workers can become exposed to psychosocial and physical hazards, including ...

Healthcare providers, including physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other allied healthcare professionals, encounter many different scenarios during a typical shift; this often involves the challenge ...

More than 20 million people develop heart disease globally each year, but there is only one cardiac rehab spot for every 12 of those patients to prevent another heart event, according to new research ...

Around this time of year we start to hear a lot about one specific area of men’s bodies: the prostate (and yes – the moustache). And much of the conversation seems to focus on PSA – prostate-specific ...

Dr. John Denstedt, St. Joseph’s surgeon, imparts his knowledge on Haitian clinicians during his one week mission in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Lack of equipment, mid-surgery power outages and highly ...

Imagine you’re a third-year college student in an interior design program and you’ve just completed six weeks of observing how long-term care residents with dementia interact with their living space.

Dr. Janet McElhaney has received a Catalyst award from AGE-WELL, Canada’s Technology and Aging Network, for new research that aims to support Indigenous families with dementia through digital ...

Providence Care Hospital was designed with input from patients, families and frontline staff — resulting in a building that feels less like an institution and more like home. The amount of natural ...

Wayne Hubbard, past-president of the RVH Auxiliary, chats with volunteer Craig Bemrose. Craig Bemrose does much more than just serve coffee at Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (RVH). He’s also ...

The way hospitals measure and report hand hygiene rates does not accurately reflect the true compliance rates of healthcare providers, according to a newly published study. “The current measurement ...

A vaccine to ward off dementia is currently being readied for human clinical trials after successful testing in a variety of animal models. A joint Californian and Australian research team supported ...