Innovation

B.C. man cured of rare disease in world-first for new gene-editing technology
Ty Sperle is the first person known to have received and be cured by a treatment known as ‘prime editing,’ in a breakthrough by U.S.-based Prime Medicine reported in the peer-reviewed New England Journal of Medicine last December.
Newsweek ranks UHN’s Toronto General the second-best hospital in the world
Newsweek, in partnership with Statista, ranked 250 hospitals by surveying medical experts, compiling patient experience data and quality metrics for more than 2,500 hospitals across 32 countries, with the aim of informing patients.

Check out the winner for our Practice Innovation Award: Sherif Hanafy Mahmoud

Pioneering neurocritical care pharmacy practice.
Check out the winner of our Technician Initiative Award: Robin Andrade

A technician-led approach to strengthening patient care skills.
Check out our Business Innovation Award Winner: Meadow Miles Pharmacy & Compounding

A new pharmacy model effectively filling healthcare gaps.
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First HALO-enabled apps will revolutionize EMR functionality

Doctors will be able to download HALO-enabled healthcare apps to their EMRs from app stores managed by provincial health authorities.
These parliamentary studies are low-profile but have implications for access to medicines

Flying under the radar in the current parliamentary session are two studies by Parliamentary Standing Committees, each with potentially serious implications for medical innovation, pandemic preparedness and access to medicines.
What’s the plan? New bill before Senate aims to provide a framework for women’s health

Bill S-243 is meant to legislate the creation of some structure to existing and future funding and initiatives.
Rise up: Fellow clinicians: We can’t wait for permission

You don’t need a title to lead. You just need the courage to adopt innovation, speak the truth about broken workflows, and refuse to accept the status quo, argues Dr. Darren Larsen. Part 4 of a 5-part series.
The scientist-entrepreneur invents a cream to treat strings from lionfish, jellyfish and much more

An understudied venom, previous treatment options for lionfish stings were extremely limited and painful.
Your skin has a microbiome. Could it be recalibrated to combat acne vulgaris?

We're all covered in bacteria from head to toe. But which types are actually the problem when it comes to this common dermatological struggle?

B.C. man cured of rare disease in world-first for new gene-editing technology

Newsweek ranks UHN’s Toronto General the second-best hospital in the world

Check out the winner for our Practice Innovation Award: Sherif Hanafy Mahmoud

Check out the winner of our Technician Initiative Award: Robin Andrade

Check out our Business Innovation Award Winner: Meadow Miles Pharmacy & Compounding

POLL: Do you expect interoperability to get better soon?

First HALO-enabled apps will revolutionize EMR functionality

These parliamentary studies are low-profile but have implications for access to medicines

What’s the plan? New bill before Senate aims to provide a framework for women’s health

Rise up: Fellow clinicians: We can’t wait for permission

The scientist-entrepreneur invents a cream to treat strings from lionfish, jellyfish and much more

Your skin has a microbiome. Could it be recalibrated to combat acne vulgaris?