Images by Vivian Young In a recently published preclinical study, Dr. Isabelle Aubert, senior scientist at Sunnybrook Research Institute and...
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Behind the Research: Do women still get the ‘short end of the stick’ when it comes to heart attack care?
While the health care system delivers high quality care, disparities remain between men and women, according to a new study by Sunnybrook researchers.
Advancing Alzheimer’s research
It’s estimated more than 600,000 people in Canada are living with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia. By 2050, that number is expected to rise to more...
Get to know SHARE: Meet two Sunnybrook education researchers
Sunnybrook’s Education Research Unit was recently renamed the Sunnybrook Hub for Applied Research in Education (SHARE), to better reflect the team...
Can an easy excuse lead people to underestimate a COVID-19 diagnosis?
Medical care requires clinicians to think through complex uncertainties, assess risks analytically, and guard against possible biases in human...
The impact of mentorship: meet medical student Samiha Mohsen
When Samiha Mohsen isn’t in the classroom, she’s pushing herself in the swimming pool as a member of the University of Toronto’s varsity swim team...
Behind the research: Studies provide more evidence that poor vascular health speeds up cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease
Two newly published studies led by Dr. Jennifer Rabin at Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) add to the accumulating evidence that vascular disease...
Behind the Research: How the latest in stroke research at Sunnybrook could change emergency stroke treatment
For the first time in nearly 30 years, a promising new approach to treating stroke has been determined to be effective in in the largest clinical...
Bev Moir is ‘crushing it’ for cancer research
Bev Moir counts herself as lucky. Diagnosed with stage four lung cancer in 2019, she underwent biomarker testing at Sunnybrook – an advanced...
Who will get Alzheimer’s? Sunnybrook scientists advancing research to answer this question
Alzheimer’s disease is one of Canada’s greatest healthcare challenges, currently having a devastating emotional and physical burden on more than 1.1...