By: Beatrice Ballarin
Caring for a growing world means caring for women and their children, says the Financial Times.1 Preventing maternal death is about more than access to drugs, and tools. Education is necessary too. According to the World …
By: Amol Rao
MSc candidate in Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Applied Sciences and Engineering, University of Toronto
The IMS Magazine recently conducted a Graduate Student Sleep Survey as part of a feature on sleep. The results, …
By: Antigona Ulndreaj and Meital Yerushalmi
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”1 This quote by Marcel Proust resonated in my mind while reading the article “Immune Privilege Within the …
By: Yekta Dowlati
As we followed the dramatic news of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa a few months ago and the hysteric fascination of the media with the few cases of Ebola that trickled into Western Europe and North …
By: Alexandra Grand
On January 15th, 2014, at the Toronto General Hospital (TGH), I donated 60% of my liver to my father. Never did I imagine that at 25, I would undergo rigorous evaluation to become his living …
By: Brittany Campbell
Since it’s conception in 2010, the IMS magazine has become well known in the University of Toronto. The original team worked extremely hard to bring it together, and now, four years later, these individuals are moving on …
By Anna Podnos
In the last issue of the IMS Magazine we explored mood disorders and the stigma surrounding mental illness. One of the main mood disorders, major depression, occurs twice as frequently in women as it does in men …
Dear Editor,
In the last issue of the IMS Magazine, the world-class research being undertaken by faculty and students in the Institute of Medical Science on mood disorders took center stage. Topics ranged from pathophysiology to treatment to the debilitating …
By: Matthew Ferguson, Executive Director of A Canadian Vision
In a timely fashion, the article about PhDs and employment (see “PhDs: Training For Jobs That Don’t Exist,” Spring 2013 edition) revealed an exciting opportunity. With all the media …
The Nuts and Bolts of Peanut Allergy
By: Meital Yerushalmi
The Addendum Guidelines for the Prevention of Peanut Allergy in the United States, published in January 2017, have illustrated that our understanding of peanut allergy (PA) has come a long way.1 Endorsed by the American …