Health

Action and Attention Lab Opening

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Action & Attention Lab

Dean Ira Jacobs of the Faculty of Physical Education and Health andProfessor Katherine Berg, chair of the Faculty of Medicine's Department of Physical Therapy, attend the opening of phys ed's new Action and Attention Lab. (photo by Reina Shishikura)

Posted Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Prevention of bedsores in long-term care homes cost-effective

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Low-tech, inexpensive interventions have major impact
Author: 
Jim Oldfield
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Professor Murray Krahn, researcher Ba' Pham

Researchers at the University of Toronto have found that low-tech, inexpensive interventions for bedsores could improve health for long-term care residents and reduce health-care costs for the facilities that house them.

Posted Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Simple technique may reduce severity of stroke

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Use of standard blood-pressure cuff recommended
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Taking blood pressure

An international team led by University of Toronto medical professors Andrew Redington and Cecil Hahn (Department of Paediatrics), based at The Hospital for Sick Children, has found a new potential treatment to help reduce the severity of acute stroke.

Posted Monday, September 26, 2011

The skinny on cardiovascular health

Author: 
Kelly Rankin

What would you do if you had a heart attack? Would you change your lifestyle? Seek cardiac rehabilitation?

According to Professor Jack Goodman at the Faculty of Physical Education and Health and adjunct scientist at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, only 20 per cent of people who require cardiac rehabilitation programs actually take part in them.

Posted Wednesday, October 13, 2010

The art of public health

Author: 
Jennifer Lanthier

Outside the crisp air and sunshine of a Friday afternoon beckoned. But inside the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, nobody so much as glanced out a window.

Interactive workshops, artists’ displays and a hot topic drew almost 200 students, faculty, artists, community activists, researchers and public health practitioners to the school’s third annual student-led conference: Art of Public Health. And playing hooky seemed to be the last thing on anyone’s mind.

Posted Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Prevention still the best medicine

Author: 
Kelly Rankin

Although the debate continues about the screening and treatment of illnesses such as breast cancer, osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease, there is one fundamental piece of advice all physicians agree on: maintain a healthy lifestyle for preventive reasons.

Posted Tuesday, September 28, 2010
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