Meet Dr. Sonia Anand, 2026-27 Scholar-in-Residence at Unity Health Toronto - Unity Health Toronto

Technology promises to improve health care delivery, enhance disease management, and promote satisfaction for patients and providers alike. Yet the reality often falls short. Mitchell Tang, an assistant professor of Health Policy and Management, studies how digital health technologies function in the real world, uncovering subtle challenges they can introduce and identifying potential solutions. His latest study, published in JAMA Network Open, analyzed 3.6 million patient portal messages from patients to their health care teams to find clues about why people from historically marginalized groups are less likely to receive a response from their doctors. Tang and his coauthors found that writing style accounted for a substantial share of these disparities.

There is an increasing disparity between university’s academic freedom statements and its actions. These comments were made during a talk held October 8 titled “Strengthening academic freedom in the corporatized university” by James Turk. A researcher on academic freedom, Turk is the director of the Centre for Free Expression at Toronto Metropolitan University. Previously, he was executive director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) from 1998 to 2014.

Among cancer patients, the high financial cost of cancer care is a prevalent problem. This financial burden is also associated with potentially harmful behavioral strategies that patients might use to cope with costs, such as delaying or forgoing treatment and skipping medications. Collectively, researchers refer to this impact as financial toxicity.

Continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) could transform diabetes management for millions of Americans with type 2 diabetes who don't take insulin, according to findings published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The clinical trial found that adults using CGMs spent approximately five additional hours each day within their target blood sugar range compared with those receiving routine care. Nearly twice as many CGM users also achieved an A1c level below 7%, a common treatment goal for people with diabetes.

Patients who wore noise-canceling headphones during minimally invasive gynecological surgery were significantly less likely to experience postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV), suggest findings from a randomized clinical trial presented at the Anesthesiology 2026 annual meeting.

“Beyond Detecting Cancer Recurrence: Can Whole-Genome Sequencing-Based ctDNA Monitoring Help Personalize Adjuvant Treatment? An exciting new study published in The Oncologist highlights the clinical potential of Signatera Genome, a whole-genome sequencing (WGS)-based, tumor-informed circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) assay, not only for detecting molecular residual disease (MRD), but also for potentially informing adjuvant treatment decisions.