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The Seven Stages of Life

WebStage 2: The Schoolboy. Stage 3: The Lover. Stage 4: The Soldier. Stage 5: The Justice. Stage 6: The Sixth Age. Stage 7: The Last Scene. It’s almost dizzying to …

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Building for Your Health

WebHealth-oriented architecture, landscape design, and urban planning could help slow the growth of health-care spending (now estimated to exceed $200 billion a …

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Is Health a Human Right

WebOne of the United Nations’ founding conventions, the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, states there’s a right to medical care, as does the 1966 …

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The Vitamin D Crisis

WebLast November, Dr. Reinhold Vieth, a professor in U of T’s departments of nutritional sciences, and laboratory medicine and pathobiology, was one of several …

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Six Questions We Need to Ask about Using Artificial Intelligence in

WebProf. Jennifer Gibson, director of U of T’s Joint Centre for Bioethics, is leading a new research project, “Ethics and AI for Health,” to study questions of privacy, …

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Winter Really Is Bad for You

WebCold temperatures in winter, they found, were independently associated with lower life expectancy in both men and women and higher infant mortality rates. This held …

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From Anxiety to Action

WebThe initiative, which launched earlier this year, will produce research-based solutions to the complex challenges identified by U of T’s 2019 task force on student …

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A Prescription for Equality

WebIn 2024, the Temerty Faculty of Medicine is expected to graduate more than 20 Black doctors – the largest such cohort from one university in Canada’s history. But …

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Doctors Make Mistakes. Can We Talk About That

WebHospital-related harms in Canada are estimated to result in patients occupying an additional 1,600 hospital beds each day, costing roughly $685 million a year. I’d like to be able to …

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The Miracle of Insulin

WebIn Type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease usually acquired in childhood or adolescence, the immune system mistakenly kills the body’s beta cells, which produce …

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A New Era in Medicine

WebThe Temertys’ gift will help open the door to a new era in medicine at U of T, in which advanced technology (such as artificial intelligence), collaboration, equity in …

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A New Era in Public Health

WebFebruary 21, 2009. More than five years have passed since the SARS crisis hit Toronto. Few will forget Sheela Basrur (MD 1982, MHSc 1987, DSc Hon. 2008), the city’s top …

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Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health

WebWaakebiness is an Anishinaabemowin name, given to institute benefactor Michael Dan by Kalvin Ottertail of the Lac La Croix First Nation. It means “Radiant Thunderbird from the …

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Deadly Pandemics through History

WebIn 1816, the infection spread beyond India for the first time, carried by British soldiers east as far as Japan and west as far as Syria and Tanzania, killing hundreds of …

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Is Life Getting Better

WebThe report found that since 1981 Canadians have become wealthier, partly by working longer hours. But income inequality increased, and the poverty rate showed little …

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The Troubled Healer

WebIn April 1940, two days before his 30th wedding anniversary, Gerry returned to Toronto and tried to resume his work. But on June 16, 1940, in a state of paranoia he told his wife that …

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Hunger in the North

Web1: A woman filets Arctic char while taking part in the Niqitsialiuq women’s cooking program, which is rooted in Inuit culture.2: A hunter near Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, stands in the …

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Why Good People Do Bad Things

WebYou are inside a mind. Take a minute to get accustomed to the light; it’s a bit dim. Now, what’s the reason you’re here? You’ve come because you’re appalled, and a little curious.

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