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Professor James Scott is an associate professor in the Division of Occupational & Environmental Health at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. He is cross-appointed to the Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, and holds hospital appointments at St. Michael’s Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Kids. Does hand sanitizer work? [...]

An interactive computer questionnaire may give family doctors a better opportunity to identify and intervene with patients who are victims of domestic violence, according to a new study from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. continue

The prostate is a walnut-sized gland of the male reproductive system that makes part of the liquid called seminal fluid that mixes with sperm from the testicles to make semen. Cancer of the prostate is the most common cancer in Canadian men.  According to the Canadian Cancer Society, about 25,500 men will be diagnosed with [...]

The birth earlier this year of octuplets to a single woman with six children continues to spark interest and debate on multiple births and fertility treatments. Dr. Robert Casper is an internationally-renowned infertility specialist, professor of reproductive biology at U of T and heads the Toronto Centre for Advanced Reproductive Technology—a full-service fertility treatment centre. [...]

Jack Mandel may be the first Director of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health but he’s aware the just-opened school inherited 81 years of history. Its roots date back to the founding of the University of Toronto’s School of Hygiene in 1927—the third such school established in North America. In reality, says Mandel, this [...]