Healthcare and Wellness : Featured Stories

Inspired by SARS, Infonaut looks to revolutionize the way hospitals control hygiene by implementing cutting-edge surveillance technology designed to mitigate disease outbreaks.

A new locally-created web portal offers recipes custom designed to help make the lives of people living with this debilitating disease more manageable -- and also more delicious.

Public policy enthusiast Vasiliki (Vass) Bednar just wrapped up a prestigious fellowship with Action Canada. In this interview, she tells Yonge Street about the "invisible" issue of Young Carers: young people who provide significant care to sick or disabled family members.

Brampton's McVean start-up project teaches newbie keeners, including new Canadians, about running sustainable farms. They learn from the experts... and from each other.

Rna Diagnostics's new tool aims to cut the amount of unnecessary chemotherapy needed to treat cancer patients, limiting side effects—and saving money too. The research was only the first part of getting their ideas to market.

In a project to help local producers meet the demands of Ontario's increasingly diverse population, scientists are building better beans (and okra, peppers and other veggies, too)

The transformation of Malvern has meant more than just reclaiming it from gang violence. Bringing people together around food and green spaces has been an integral ingredient. 

When TO newcomer Darcy Higgins looked around the city, he saw a burgeoning food culture that needed a unified voice around issues of accessibility, sustainability and security. Food Forward, the group he founded, is providing a table to gather at.

The Depanneur might look like a mere Dundas West hipster hangout. But behind the scenes, its unusual business model defies what it means to be a restaurant.

Toronto's farmers' markets reflect the character of their 'hoods just as much they reflect what local producers have on offer.

In her new book The Woman Who Changed Her Brain, Barbara Arrowsmith-Young reveals how she employed cutting-edge research about neuroplasticity to create 'cognitive calisthenics' to help challenged people build better brains.

Diana Pliura met Milos Popovic during the TiEQuest startup competition two years ago. Now the duo has taken the top prize with a technology that offers hope for paralysis patients.

Can you judge food by its label? With consumers in hot pursuit of food that's 'sustainable,' a Toronto not-for-profit organization has tried to quantify the idea with a nation-wide certification system.

A documentary on peak oil was a wake-up call for two veteran filmmakers, leading them to unexpected careers in the local food movement.

Iran's Cultural Revolution and a grandfather's death led Hamid Tizhoosh to create a revolutionary tool that could help oncologists cloud-source knowledge about cancer tumours. So much for his idea of a 'take it easy' life in Canada.