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Everywhere you turn of late, it seems you’re confronted with a bottle of alcohol-based hand sanitizer. We asked Professor James Scott whether…
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This glass bottle, known as a Crookes tube, is actually a distant ancestor of the television. Purchased by the University of Toronto early in the 20th…
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Celebrated writer and former U of T English and film professor Josef Skvorecky, who used a fictionalized Erindale College (now U of T Mississauga)…
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When hockey players are knocked out on the ice, medical personnel often look to computerized cognition tests to determine when concussed athletes can…
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Three University of Toronto faculty members, nine alumni and two additional U of T benefactors have been honoured with year-end Order of…
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Four University of Toronto projects have the golden touch and six others are worthy of acclaim, say judges in the Accolades Awards competition…
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Treating ovarian cancer with the drug bevacizumab (“Avastin”) delays the disease and may also improve survival, according to an…
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Hospitals vary greatly in the number of patients who see an internal medicine specialist before major non-cardiac surgery, with rates ranging from…
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Women who are at risk for breast cancer may also be at greater risk for heart disease, new research from the University of Toronto and St.…
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In their quest to track health patterns across populations, epidemiologists often call themselves “disease detectives.” Not the University…
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After the many years of commuting on Christmas Eve, jolly old St. Nicholas is reconsidering his home at the North Pole. Given his job description,…
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Professor Aephraim Steinberg and colleagues at the Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control at the University of Toronto had the top physics…