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Key finding: Enterprises that say "no" to new technologies in an effort to reduce risk are in fact less secure than enterprises that say "yes" and adopt responsibly TORONTO, March 7, 2013 /CNW/ - TELUS and the Rotman School of Management at The University of Toronto today released the fifth annual study on Canadian IT Security. Taking a qualitative approach for the first time, the research team interviewed security leaders from across the country in a variety of industries to...

TORONTO, Feb. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Last September the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management quietly launched their new initiative for technology entrepreneurship, The Creative Destruction Lab. Today, one of the ventures in the first cohort of this new initiative not so quietly has launched its first product, receiving attention from media including TechCrunch and Wired. The MYO is the first product from Thalmic Labs. The device is an armband for...

NBA player stats used to study on-the-job adaptability If an employee's performance drops in one area, does that mean they're slacking off? It could mean that they've simply shifted and refocused their efforts on a different set of tasks -- a positive sign of adaptability that should be considered in performance evaluations,  says a study lead by a researcher at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management. The study, published in Human Performance, draws on statistics...

Obese and overweight people are gaining weight rapidly in low-and middle-income countries while those who are severely undernourished are not experiencing similar weight gains, according to a University of Toronto and Harvard School of Public Health study. This growing divide may force governments in the developing world to care for people who fall dramatically short on their calorie intake while simultaneously treating health problems associated with obesity, including diabetes and heart...

Ecologists at the University of Toronto and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) have found that, given time, invading exotic plants will likely eliminate native plants growing in the wild despite recent reports to the contrary. A study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) reports that recent statements that invasive plants are not problematic are often based on incomplete information, with insufficient time having passed to observe...

Urologist Dr. Rajiv Singal puts words into action in Movember Campaign TORONTO, Nov. 30, 2012 /CNW/ - With the completion of Movember, the Toronto East General Hospital (TEGH) Foundation has congratulated Dr. Rajiv Singal for his inspirational campaign that saw him finish first in Ontario by raising over $42,000 in support of the fight against prostate cancer. Dr. Singal, longtime Head of the division of urology and current Lead of the surgical robotics program, demonstrated...

University of Toronto Study moves scientists 1 step closer to creating youthful heart patches from old cells A new method of growing cardiac tissue is teaching old stem cells new tricks. The discovery, which transforms aged stem cells into cells that function like much younger ones, may one day enable scientists to grow cardiac patches for damaged or diseased hearts from a patient's own stem cells—no matter what age the patient—while avoiding the threat of rejection. Stem cell...

TORONTO, Nov. 20, 2012 /CNW/ - Building on the momentum of W. Brett Wilson's $1M Challenge in support of the Robotic Prostate Cancer Program and Redevelopment Campaign, Toronto East General Hospital (TEGH) Foundation is pleased to report that Urologist Dr. Rajiv Singal is also leading the way nationally in the Movember campaign. Demonstrating his leadership in prostate cancer awareness and treatment, Dr. Singal's passion is evident in his participation in the Movember campaign...

Wilson donates $100,000 launching the TEGH W. Brett Wilson Gift Challenge TORONTO, Nov. 14, 2012 /CNW/ - Toronto East General Hospital (TEGH) supporter, iconic Canadian investor, grateful former TEGH patient and prostate-cancer "graduate", W. Brett Wilson, has donated $100,000 to TEGH, launching the TEGH W. Brett Wilson Gift Challenge. Wilson is challenging Canadians to match his commitment, to hit a target of one million, in support of the hospital's revolutionary robotic...

Dr. John Millis and Jedidiah Becker for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online In 2008, astronomers announced that the Hubble Space Telescope had captured images of an alien planet orbiting the nearby star Fomalhaut, located a mere 25 light years away in the constellation Piscis Austrinus. Dubbed Fomalhaut b and claimed as the first exoplanet to be confirmed through direct imaging in visible light, the planet appeared to orbit its star immersed in a massive ring of dust and debris. In...