Innovation

New healthcare funding and other Ontario budget highlights
The budget allocates over $1.1 billion in new funding for hospitals—more than a billion dollars less than what the Ontario Hospital Association has said the province’s overburdened hospital sector needs.
FIP World Congress spotlights pharmacy’s expanding role in global health
Sessions highlight real-world innovations, collaboration and patient-centred care.

The edge of tomorrow: Medicine’s pattern recognition revolution

As AI transforms specialties, the challenge isn’t the tech—it’s updating a healthcare system still billing for the era of the horse and buggy.
Ontario’s healthcare system was built for a different era but to quote our PM: ‘Nostalgia is not a strategy’

Ontario’s healthcare challenges are not the result of a single shock. They are the predictable outcome of design choices made for a different era.
It’s getting crowded at the top!

I am so glad that I’m not responsible for judging the entries in our annual Pharmacy Practice + Business Awards.
A free, web-based atlas of mass cytometry patient profiles

Investigators at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have built this new tool for patients with metastatic pancreatic cancers.
The power of the ‘good catch’

How Continuous Quality Improvement is changing safety culture in Canadian pharmacies.
Ontario hospital tries virtual waiting room to address wait times, overcrowding in ER

When Dr. Stephen Smith visited Disney World a few years ago, his family didn’t have to stand in line for hours waiting for their favourite rides and shows.
Why the next generation of pharmacy leaders won’t come from traditional pathways

The traditional pharmacy career ladder assumes leadership is earned through time, titles, and tenure. But the profession has outgrown that model.
UBC creates interactive timeline celebrating women's achievements in the Faculty of Medicine

‘Since the doors of the UBC Faculty of Medicine first opened in 1950, many incredible women have shaped our evolution as a world-class institution.’
Reminiscing on residency: Dr. Josiah Osagie on switching course, meeting patients where they’re at and the importance of humility

‘There are many different truths operating at the same time,’ says this early-career psychiatrist of the messiness of moving from textbook theory to practice.
Canadian researchers discover drug-targetable suppressor of T cell immunity against cancer

Researchers at Université de Montréal Clinical Research Institute have developed monoclonal antibodies that target SLAMF6.

New healthcare funding and other Ontario budget highlights

FIP World Congress spotlights pharmacy’s expanding role in global health

The edge of tomorrow: Medicine’s pattern recognition revolution

Ontario’s healthcare system was built for a different era but to quote our PM: ‘Nostalgia is not a strategy’

It’s getting crowded at the top!

A free, web-based atlas of mass cytometry patient profiles

The power of the ‘good catch’

Ontario hospital tries virtual waiting room to address wait times, overcrowding in ER

Why the next generation of pharmacy leaders won’t come from traditional pathways

UBC creates interactive timeline celebrating women's achievements in the Faculty of Medicine

Reminiscing on residency: Dr. Josiah Osagie on switching course, meeting patients where they’re at and the importance of humility

Canadian researchers discover drug-targetable suppressor of T cell immunity against cancer