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New technology could allow more cancer patients to benefit from immunotherapy Naoto Hirano, a professor in U of T’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine, and his colleagues have developed a more powerful way to identify immune cells capable of recognizing and eliminating cancer cells (photo by UHN StRIDe Team)
Professor Naoto Hirano of the Temerty Faculty of Medicine and collaborators have developed a new technology that rigorously and robustly identifies the immune cells that are capable of recognizing and eliminating cancer cells.
The findings, published in Nature Biotechnology, pave the way for novel immunotherapies to help more patients, regardless of their genetic ancestry, live longer and healthier lives.
TORONTO Public health and housing advocates are demanding the return of eviction bans across Canada and feel their arguments are bolstered by a new study that found the policy stopped the spread of COVID-19. People who were evicted and the households that took them in had a 1.5-to-2.5-fold higher risk of being infected than if eviction bans were in place, researchers at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Pennsylvania found. Although many provinces enacted eviction bans early on in the pandemic, by autumn 2020, most of those provinces rescinded those policies, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
Ontario will allow hospitals to move chronically ill hospital patients out of hospitals and into long-term care homes without their consent to free up space for COVID-19 patients, the province announced Wednesday.
How thousands of COVID-19 patients have been getting remote care at home
Virtual care or remote monitoring isn t new to GTA hospitals but it has expanded exponentially over the last year during the pandemic. As ICU numbers steadily rise, remote care also helps create space in a health-care system already stretched thin by COVID-19.
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