In the News

• Ontario Supporting Research in Health and the Environment
• Healthcare Costs Typical Canadian Family More Than $11,000 per Year
• Health Minister announces $13M investment in Kingston healthcare
• What Canadians need to know after Zika virus is transmitted by Florida mosquitoes
• Depression screening tools not accurate for children and adolescents
• Senior citizens don’t acknowledge health vulnerability
• Rare birth defect increasing, puzzling Canadian doctors
• Increased risk of diabetes linked to higher BMI: twin study
• Health risks to consider if you're heading to the Olympics
• Ontario man claims age discrimination is barring him from post-stroke treatment
• Home health care in Mississauga-Halton gets $6M boost from province
• Developing Telemedicine Market Forecasted to Top $1.2 Billion by 2020 as Innovative Mobile Health Applications Drive Healthcare Sector Forward
• When 6 become 1: N.W.T. health superboard launched Aug. 1
• Mount Sinai Hospital’s refusal to eliminate one fetus from twin pregnancy triggers human rights battle
• Switched embryos and wrong sperm: IVF mix-ups lead to babies born with ‘unintended parentage’
• Pigeons can be trained to detect what's a cancerous tumour and what's not
• Ottawa needs to step up on B.C.’s fentanyl crisis: Ex-police chief
• Quebec looking at ways to curb prescription drug abuse
• Digital health care could ease strain on doctors
• Nova Scotia’s new online portal will deliver health test results to smartphones
• Health and Healthcare News
• World Health News

From the Longwoods Archives

Not Dead Yet: The Spectre of Nursing Human Resource Shortages
Kathleen MacMillan

Mapping Nurse Mobility in Canada with GIS: Career Movements from Two Canadian Provinces
Gavin J. Andrews, Linda McGillis Hall, Sheri Price, Michelle Lalonde, Alexandra Harris and Sandra MacDonald-Rencz

Longwoods Videos

Meet Ludwig: Robot helps seniors with Alzheimer's, dementia

Digital Me and the rise of precision medicine | TEDxAuckland

Basic Income can save our health | Danielle Martin

Breaking the Boundaries of Complex Care for Children

The Singing Transporter

Marketing to Doctors

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Transitions

• Lisa Priest to Assistant Deputy Minister, Ontario Women's Directorate, Toronto, ON
• Donna Woloschuk to President, Canadian Council for Accreditation of Pharmacy Programs, Toronto, ON
• Sally Ginter to Chief Executive Officer, Ronald McDonald House Charities, Toronto, ON
• Francisco Dias-Mitoma to Chief Medical Officer, VBI Vaccines, Cambridge, MA
• Steven J. Hoffman to Scientific Director, CIHR Institute of Population and Public Health, Ottawa, ON
• Melanie Rock to Scientific Director, O’Brien Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
• Philip Ellison to Physician Advisor, Primary Care Strategy, Toronto Central LHIN, Toronto, ON
• Jocelyn Charles to Primary Care Co-Lead, North Sub Region, Toronto Central LHIN, Toronto, ON
• Yoel Abells to Primary Care Co-Lead, North Sub Region, Toronto Central LHIN, Toronto, ON
• Geordie Fallis to Primary Care Clinic Lead, East Sub Region, Toronto Central LHIN, Toronto, ON
• Curtis Handford to Primary Care Lead, Mid East Sub Region, Toronto Central LHIN, Toronto, ON
• Pauline Pariser to Primary Care Lead, Mid-West Sub Region, Toronto Central LHIN, Toronto, ON
• Don Smith, to Primary Care Clinic Lead, West Sub Region, Toronto Central LHIN, Toronto, ON
• Darrly Plecas to Parliamentary Secretary to Accessibility, Government of BC, Vancouver, BC
• Alika Lafontaine to Collaborative Team Leader, Indigenous Health Alliance, Regina, SK
• David Keselman to Sessional Instructor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Athabasca University, Athabasca, AB
• Ann Ford to Joint VP, Facilities, Redevelopment and IT, William Osler Health System, Headwaters Health Care Centre and Central West CCAC, Brampton, ON
• Shawn Kerr to Associate VP, Public Affairs and Strategic Partnerships, Trillium Health Partners, Mississauga, ON
• Phoebe Tian to Coordinator, Funding Implementation and Operation, Cancer Care Ontario, Toronto, ON
• Noemie Terrio to Communications Advisor, Public Health Ontario, Toronto, ON
• Neil Shah to Director, Corporate Planning and Project Management Office, Health Quality Ontario, Toronto, ON
• Donovan Molloy to Information and Privacy Commissioner, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John’s, NL
• Doug Cochrane to Team Lead, EHR Review, Island Health and Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, Nanaimo, BC
• Michael Rieder to Interim Chair / Chief, Department of Paediatrics, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western, London, ON
• Lesley Beagrie to Board of Directors, Peterborough Regional Health Centre, Peterborough, ON
• Chris Feindel to Board of Directors, Peterborough Regional Health Centre, Peterborough, ON
• Dr. Jon Johnsen to North West LHIN Clinical Quality Lead, Health Quality Ontario and the North West LHIN, Thunder Bay, ON.
• Dr. Rebecca Van Iersel to North Simcoe Muskoka LHIN Clinical Quality Lead, Health Quality Ontario and the North Simcoe Muskoka LHIN, Orillia, ON.
• Dr. Tamara Wallington to Central West LHIN Clinical Quality Lead, Health Quality Ontario and the Central West LHIN, Brampton, ON.
• Dr. Martin Lees to Erie St. Clair LHIN Clinical Quality Lead, Health Quality Ontario and the Erie St. Clair LHIN, Chatham, ON.