Designer Babies: A Future of Genetic Inequality
Would you order your perfect child from a company? Genetics has become increasingly relevant in a clinical setting ever since the birth of the first baby through in-vitro fertilization (IVF)...
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The Role for Doctors and AI in Disease Diagnosis
Artificial intelligence (AI) can be broadly applied to transform and improve patient care. Advancements in AI in healthcare settings are in part due to improvements in learning algorithms and the...
The Development and Advances in Treatments for Autoimmune Diseases
Health care is rapidly evolving. From new ways to harness the immune system’s natural capabilities to advances in nanotechnology and the advent of omics and big data, we are continuously...
The Business of Healthcare
The healthcare industry is one of the fastest-growing markets, estimated to be worth over $8 trillion USD in 2018. It is unsurprising that tech giants like Google/Alphabet, Microsoft, Apple, and...
Social Media: Remote Health, Patient Empowerment and Medical Literacy
Social media is a powerful tool for communication, where users can create, share, and interact with digital content. Social media platforms such as Twitter, Instagram and Facebook have been widely...
A Tale of Two Inner-Cities: The Disproportional Impact of COVID-19 on Northwest Toronto Neighborhoods
At the start of the pandemic, COVID-19 was once termed “the great equalizer”. A calamitous Grim Reaper that took no sides to race, ethnicity, income, or privilege. Anyone and everyone...
Lockdowns Around the World
No one knows life under lockdown better than people living in Toronto. The city has spent most of the pandemic under strict public health restrictions and has experienced one of...
COVID-19: Defining a new generation
Not infected does not mean unaffected. Although this is true for people of any age during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is especially true of children. “Generation COVID”, also known as...
All bets are off: Canada’s venture for vaccines
I thought a phrase like this was a thing of the past. It belonged in a primitive era, where survival of the fittest was the dominant way of life. It...
Issue 2, 2021 – Cover
With the steadfast development of vaccines, the light at the end of the tunnel appears to be almost within our grasp. Are we finally moving into a post-pandemic world and...