Christina Frangou

Kevin Smith, president and CEO at Toronto’s University Health Network, has a pitch: he wants to turn Canada into the best place in the world to take scientific discoveries to market. “My objective is world dominance in clinical enterprises that we can be ... See more

FIVE DAYS AFTER my husband died, I started watching the Tour de France. It was the opening stage, 2013. The team buses had dropped their cyclists off at the start and headed toward the finish, 213 kilometres away. Disaster struck: a bus got stuck under th... See more

It is nearly impossible to comprehend just how tiny a premature baby can be. So try this: Go to your fridge and grab a can of pop or fizzy water. Put it lengthwise in your hand. Test its weight for a few seconds. Look at how your longest finger pops over ... See more

Reprinted with permission from Be Giant, a non-profit, non-partisan media outlet reporting on the people, places, ideas and breakthroughs shaping Canada's future. It is nearly impossible to comprehend just how tiny a premature baby can be. So try this: Go... See more

In 2006, John O’Connor, a family physician in Fort Chipewyan, Alberta, noticed something strange: three people in the area, with its 1,200 residents, had cholangiocarcinoma – bile duct cancer. Bile duct cancer is rare, with only about 600 cases diagnosed ... See more