Posts Tagged: health

Researchers Determine Where Best to Place Defibrillators

Prompt use of an automated external defibrillator, or AED, can greatly increase the survival rates of people who suffer a cardiac arrest. And MIE Professor Tim Chan, working with Dr. Laurie Morrison at St. Michael’s Hospital, has developed a formula to…

Mary Qiu Wins Health Innovation Challenge

Mary Qiu (IndE 1T3 + PEY) has placed first in the individual category of the Health Council of Canada’s nation-wide Health Innovation Challenge for her paper “Preventing Acute Care Hospital Readmissions Through the Use of a Virtual Ward.” More than 100…

National Engineering Month 2013

National Engineering Month (NEM) is the biggest national celebration of engineering and technology. Across Canada, engineering schools and volunteers stage more than 500 events and activities to bring more awareness to the exciting and rewarding world of engineering. This year’s…

Spreading the Word

What does a discussion among approximately 140 high school students, volunteers, teachers and world-leading scientists on the subject of stem cells sound like? Oddly personal, important and revolutionary. “A student was saying that one of his friends died of leukemia…

Pour, Shake and Stir

A diagnostic ‘cocktail,’ containing a single drop of blood, a dribble of water and a dose of DNA powder with gold particles, could one day lead to the treatment of the world’s leading diseases. This homegrown brew is being developed…
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