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The Ontario Burden of Infectious Disease Study (ONBOIDS) finds many of top 10 are often overlooked. Nearly 5,000 Ontarians die from infectious diseases every year.

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A new Canadian study reveals that financial barriers – in the form of sharing asthma medication costs between insurers and families, are contributing to poor asthma control in children.

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Teenage male drivers are twice as likely as the average population to be involved in a serious crash.

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New research done at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) has found that patients with heart failure who received care by both a cardiac specialist and a family physician.

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Patients admitted to hospital on weekends compared to weekdays have higher stroke case fatalities.

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Approximately 1 in 4 computed tomography (CT) scans of the brain in Ontario are requested to evaluate patients with headaches.

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Initial report shows longer wait times for long-term care but faster placement for seniors who are the most in need.

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Men with prostate cancer are often treated with hormone therapy otherwise known as Androgen Deprivation Therapy (ADT).

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Nearly half of women with diabetes prior to pregnancy have a potentially-avoidable C-section and their babies are twice as likely to die as those born to women without diabetes.

The public and health professionals depend on media coverage for accurate and reliable information about new health treatments.

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Pregnant women undergo CT or nuclear imaging tests not appear to have babies at higher risk of developing childhood cancer, study led by ICES researcher Dr. Joel Ray.

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In an effort to keep people who undergo major surgery safe, surgeons frequently refer their patients for evaluation by internal medicine specialists before the planned surgery.

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Nearly 40 per cent of women living in Ontario’s metropolitan areas are not getting appropriate cervical cancer screening.

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COHSRD says the move by the Federal Government to replace the Canadian Census long form with a voluntary survey will undermine research into quality and safety of Ontario health care system.

Individuals with asthma are more likely to suffer from other types of disease than those without asthma.

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Nearly 60 percent of Ontarians with rheumatoid arthritis were not seen by a specialist within a one-year period to treat the debilitating disease, according to a new study.

A study performed at ICES found that the commonly used TMP-SMX associated 7-fold risk of hospitalization for hyperkalemia elderly patients treated with angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors.

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Less than 38 per cent of Ontarians are receiving recommended follow-up testing six months after an initial CT or MRI scan.

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New research shows nearly nine out of every 100 Canadians will be diagnosed with diabetes over 10 years, which will lead to nearly two million new diabetes cases in Canada by 2017.

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Children in some parts of Ontario are receiving sub optimal care because they don’t have access to a family doctor.

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The ethnic group you belong to can determine what major cardiovascular risk factors you are most susceptible to.

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Recent immigrants, particularly immigrants of South Asian and African origin, are at high risk of developing diabetes compared with long-term residents of Ontario.

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The rate of Ontarians being admitted to hospital with stroke or Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA) has dropped 23 per cent in less than five years despite an expected increase due to an aging population.

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It is estimated that one billion people will die during the 21st century as a result of tobacco-related disease.

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New research performed at ICES has found that the blood thinning drug warfarin can be dangerous when combined with cotrimoxazole most often used to treat urinary tract infection (UTI).

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Researchers find Ontario’s South and West Asian or Arab women report most difficulty in finding a doctor and getting an appointment

The number of adults over 35-years-old diagnosed with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) has increased 64.8 per cent from 1996 to 2007 according to new research conducted at the ICES.

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For the first time, experts in emergency medicine led by a team of researchers at ICES have joined forces and developed a list of the most important evidence.

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Angioplasty (a procedure used to widen a narrowed or obstructed blood vessel in the heart) may not be the only avenue for stable heart disease patients with chest pain.

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Canadian researchers have developed a simple tool to predict the probability that a patient discharged from hospital to the community will die or be unexpectedly readmitted within 30 days.

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Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) can prevent sudden cardiac death in many patients whose hearts have weakened pumping ability, as well as for some who have suffered a past heart attack.

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Research from ICES, The Hospital for Sick Children, and Sunnybrook Heath Sciences Centre has found that one in three Ontarians are at risk of being diagnosed with asthma during their lifetimes.

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Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) are a class of antidepressants that continue to be recommended by official guidelines for treating older adults with refractory, atypical and bipolar depression.

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In women with breast cancer, tamoxifen significantly reduces the likelihood of recurrence and death due to breast cancer.

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Recent immigrants to Ontario have a 30 per cent lower risk of stroke than long term residents, according to preliminary study results from researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital and ICES.

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Patients scheduled for major surgery sometimes undergo specialized heart tests (or stress tests) before surgery to help determine whether they have heart disease.

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Current use of prenatal ultrasounds in women with singleton pregnancies is 55% greater than in 1996, even in low-risk pregnancies.

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