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UHN and YouTube Health Join Forces to Deliver Trusted Health Information to Canadians

University Health Network (UHN), Canada’s #1 hospital and a leading healthcare institution dedicated to providing exceptional patient care & advancing biomedical research, and YouTube Health, a global initiative committed to making high-quality...
1-Feb-2024 3:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

To safely deploy generative AI in health care, models must be open source

Large-language models could soon become essential tools for diagnosing diseases. To protect people’s privacy, medical professionals must drive the development and deployment of such models.
30-Nov-2023 11:00 AM EST Add to Favorites

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Chronic pain program at Toronto Rehab awarded for its ECHOing effects

In 2014, Dr. Andrea Furlan, a physician at Toronto Rehab and a leader in chronic pain treatment, had a vision: to bring together a group of experts who could equip health care professionals in the community with the knowledge they'd need to provide...
29-Nov-2023 12:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

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Living – and thriving – without a stomach

When Teresa Tiano had her stomach removed, she didn't know how she was going to survive.
29-Nov-2023 12:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

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Matters of the brain

​Researchers at UHN's Krembil Brain Institute have uncovered links between structural changes in the brain and neuropsychiatric symptoms of various neurodegenerative diseases.
29-Nov-2023 11:05 AM EST Add to Favorites

Study using novel approach for glioblastoma treatment shows promising results, extending survival

A new international study published in and presented as a late-breaking abstract at the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) annual conference, shows great promise for patients with glioblastoma. Drs. Farshad Nassiri and Gelareh...
16-May-2023 8:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Researchers identify a potential new therapeutic target in Parkinson's disease

In a study published in Nature Communications, a team led by Krembil Brain Institute at UHN Senior Scientists, Drs. Lorraine Kalia and Suneil Kalia, and University of Toronto (U of T) Professor, Dr. Philip M. Kim, identified a protein-protein...
19-Apr-2023 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Takeda licenses small molecule developed by Krembil Brain Institute researchers, targeting tau protein implicated in Alzheimer’s disease

Global pharmaceutical company Takeda has agreed to exclusively license a group of small molecules that target tau – a protein in which misfolding and aggregation are believed to be a cause of Alzheimer’s disease.
11-Apr-2023 2:10 PM EDT Add to Favorites


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World-first: experts at UHN, Sinai Health and SickKids develop plan to save critically ill mother and her baby

Physicians recommend that patients with pulmonary hypertension avoid pregnancy, given the high risk of death for the mother and baby. However, Candice Cruise was unaware of her condition until she reached 21 weeks of pregnancy.
4-Oct-2021 8:25 AM EDT

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‘It’s not about just surviving. It’s about seeing my patients living normally’

Dr. Eugene Chang was 25, recently engaged and halfway through a physical medicine and rehabilitation residency in Vancouver when he started feeling sick. Fatigue, dizziness and nausea took over his normally active lifestyle. Suddenly his bike to...
12-Nov-2019 5:30 AM EST

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Why Some Gain When Under Pain

Dr. Davis has shown that individuals can be classified as one of two types depending on how pain affects their performance in doing a task. In P-type individuals, pain impedes their ability to perform a task; whereas, in A-type individuals, like...
29-May-2018 11:05 AM EDT

New Web-Based Fitness Program Provides Exercise Instruction for Heart Patients

Using a proactive approach to encourage optimal heart health through a blend of leading medical knowledge and best practices in fitness and exercise, the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre today unveiled a new website featuring medical information,...
10-Jun-2015 8:25 AM EDT

Media Advisory – Update on Eugene Melnyk’s Transplant

Members of University Health Network’s Multi-Organ Transplant (MOT) Team will be available to the media and will provide an update on Eugene Melnyk’s transplant, living liver transplantation and the process used for anonymous donation.
20-May-2015 1:15 PM EDT

Long-Term Care May Not Be Best for Adults with Traumatic Brain Injury; Other Housing Needed

A new, large-scale Canadian study shows that many adults with traumatic brain injury (TBI) live in a long-term health setting – such as a nursing home- which may not be appropriate for their condition and younger age.
2-Mar-2015 9:05 AM EST

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