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Archive for February, 2005
Complementing life at St. Joseph’s Health Centre
We all know that people are living longer and that there will be more of us as time goes on. The people who are in long term care now are cared for by knowledgeable, discerning spouses and children who are ...
Breakthrough cancer technology brings new hope to
Alberta Radiosurgery Centre patients
The first of its kind in Canada, the Alberta Radiosurgery Centre (ARC) is a unique program that offers dedicated stereotactic treatments for brain and extracranial sites. With two dedicated radiation oncologists, two dedicated neurosurgeons, and an additional neurosurgeon specializing in ...
Splash down off Key Largo – Canadian doctor leads
pilot telerobotic assisted surgery program for NASA
Extreme Environment Mission operation
"AESOP move in." St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton surgeon Dr. Mehran Anvari, who is world renowned for his expertise in telerobotic assisted surgery, wanted a closer view of what was happening 1600 miles away and 62 feet underwater off the Florida ...
Mount Sinai’s new technology centre applies
tomorrow’s technology today
Mount Sinai's new Informatics Technovision Unit (ITU) is enabling the Hospital to apply tomorrow's technology, today. Opened in the summer of 2004, the ITU has a vision and a mandate to partner technology sector leaders with health care professionals in ...
My personal experience with Doctors Without Borders,
a.k.a. Médecins Sans Frontières
When I was a child I remember seeing the images of the Ethiopia famine on television. Ever since then, I knew that I needed to assist, to witness, to give something of myself, and to be a citizen of the ...
Credit Valley measures superior performance through
evidence based design
Implemented for the first time in a Canadian hospital, a research study will quantifiably examine the effects of design on staff and client efficiency, and formally document measured correlations to determine the positive, or negative impacts on patient recovery, satisfaction ...
Trillium’s Women’s Health Centre provides
high tech care in a healing environment
The new Betty Wallace Women's Health Centre at Trillium Health Centre is like a breath of fresh air for women who go there. The spa-like Centre, a one-stop shop for screening and early intervention for breast cancer and osteoporosis, provides ...
Rx: medicinal arts
"...I shall never forget the rapture of fever patients have over a bunch of bright colored flowers. People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body too. ...Variety of ...
Managing clinical trials at the click of a mouse
Bordering a sprawling Toronto ravine, the stately, tree-lined campus of Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre gives an impression of tranquility that belies the intense activity inside the buildings. The hospital is home to almost 200 cancer clinical trials alone. ...
Good design key to collaboration in Robarts clinical
imaging labs
How can we better understand, treat and ultimately prevent debilitating chronic diseases of the bones, lungs, arteries and heart? By bringing together talented clinicians and researchers across a range of disciplines and equipping them with the tools they need to ...
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Music Therapy Comforts Cancer Patients
Tomoko Okumura wields the power of music and uses it for the good of others. At the Juravinski Cancer Centre (JCC), Tomoko has [...]
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TARGetting kids for a healthier future
Imagine being able to predict – and prevent – whether a 2-year-old will be at risk of developing high cholesterol and suffering from [...]
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Innovation leads to better efficiency, improved patient care in Rouge Valley Chemotherapy Clinic
Technology being used in Rouge Valley Health System’s chemotherapy clinic is helping to improve efficiency, accuracy and patient care. One simple solution is [...]
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Second MRI Offers Flexibility at Mackenzie Health
MRI scans have become vital diagnostic tools for hospitals around the world. Without exposing patients to radiation, MRI scans can show more precise [...]
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Heart in Hand boutique helps women recovering from cancer
Shelley Gable and I opened Heart in Hand Boutique in the fall of 2012 when we both saw a need for a one [...]
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New Xenon Polarizer in place to advance imaging research
On Friday, April 26, the Honourable Reza Moridi, Ontario’s Minister of Research and Innovation, viewed the Thunder Bay Regional Research Institute’s (TBRRI) xenon [...]
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Columns
Work to be done to improve patient safety in paediatrics
We go to great lengths to protect our children, doing our best to keep them safe from harm. Unfortunately, more than nine per [...]
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Columns
Getting the Facts on Genetic Testing
Angelina Jolie’s recent editorial in the New York Times resulted in a whirlwind of discussion. Her announcement to decide to undergo a double [...]
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Progress against Cancer
It’s been three years since Bluewater Health first saw an opportunity to transform its cancer program and refocus priorities on the needs of [...]
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Millennials help scientists transform breast cancer research
What compels a twelve year old to commit to a five-year research study? It’s a mixture of cool and curiosity. Just ask Mackenzie [...]
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Columns
Annual meeting of nurses: A grand event
In April, about 650 RNs and nursing students attended the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) annual general meeting (AGM). There was praise [...]
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Improving the paediatric day surgery patient experience
In January of 2012, Registered Nurse Halona Scott of London Health Science Centre was challenged with finding a way to give teary-eyed children [...]
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Cord blood from Canada’s new national public cord blood bank will help save more lives
After Amy and Mike Lupton’s son, Nate, was born on April 7, 2010, he was diagnosed with Wiskott Aldrich Syndrome, a rare immune [...]
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A Year in the Life: How Local Cancer Care Made All the Difference for Nina Ruberto
Two days after her 40th birthday, Nina Ruberto was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer. That’s the day, she said, that [...]
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NICU at North Bay Regional Health Centre: Caring for our smallest patients
When Kristen Roy’s water broke at 34 weeks, she didn’t quite believe it. “I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t even think [...]
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Columns
New mental health safety standard may impact employers’ duties related to employee mental health
Recent studies have shown that one in five Canadians will experience a mental illness in their lifetime, and that mental health is the [...]
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Responding to a Sentinel Event: Why having a policy in place is critical
People ask me – what is the most difficult part of your day to day job as a Hospital CEO? For me, responding [...]
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Caregiver
Lots of support needs, lots of choices: what’s best to do?
Families across Canada are more and more facing a dilemma: how to ensure aging parents and other loved ones have the kind of [...]
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‘Why didn’t my daughter’s therapist check with me about this counselling?”
Gone are the days when healthcare practitioners needed to recall the legal age of consent for treatment –18, 12, 9, 15? In most [...]
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St. Joe’s makes speech-language therapy fun for our youngest patients
Does your toddler seem tongue-tied? Don’t worry – they’re not alone. Speech and language delays are a common issue for many Canadian kids, [...]
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