Manitoba is launching a new system-wide expansion of race-based data collection in hospitals, building on efforts to track how different racial groups were disproportionately impacted by COVID-19.

B.C. plans to begin collecting data on the race of all its citizens with a new law that will identify which populations are being underserved by government programs such as health care, the ...

B.C. Premier John Horgan wants to begin collecting race and ethnicity-based data across ministries to help inform government policy. In a letter sent this week to Kasari Govender, the provincial Human ...

A University of Toronto researcher is launching a Black-run survey to understand the impact of COVID-19 on the African and Black diaspora. “This project is about life and death for our community,” ...

Professor Song Min-ho of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has a unique background. He graduated from Chungnam National University School of Medicine in 1986 and has ...

A MyChart-driven data collection strategy proved acceptable, appropriate, and feasible for gathering SOGI information from patients at a cancer center in the South,” the researchers wrote.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Sept. 30 doubling the current federal budget for research into childhood cancer using artificial intelligence, building on a 2019 initiative he ...

Statistics Canada has published mortality data for the Black population for the first time. The findings highlight the urgent need for systematic collection, analysis and use of race based data if we ...

A growing body of data about the heightened risks faced by Black women in the U.K. and U.S. during pregnancy has highlighted the failings of Canada's colour-blind approach to health care, according to ...

Federal agencies will create a database of patients with autism to collect research that could reshape how the U.S. understands and treats autism spectrum disorder. According to Baller Alert, the ...

Nimble’s ingestible device brings new insights into stomach health. Healthtech startup Nimble Science has raised $2.7 million CAD to unlock critical intestinal health data. Nimble has developed an ...