Life's transitions and changes - especially those experienced following an illness or surgery are the inspiration behind Providence Healthcare's innovative Pre-Rehab Care Service. This unique service within Providence Hospital's Complex Continuing Care Program bridges a gap for patients who ...

The bar is being raised for the Canadian security industry. And it's about time! Outdated legislation, which in some cases is almost 40 years old, is being revised in several provinces to encompass all security practitioners. New regulatory standards are ...

In an effort to decrease lengthy wait lists for joint replacement surgery, the Orthopaedic & Arthritic Institute (OAI) of Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre has begun a new initiative with the Ontario Joint Replacement Registry (OJRR) for ...

Many of Canada's top academics, clinicians, as well as industry advancing medical robotics technology, gathered in London Ontario at CSTAR (Canadian Surgical Technologies & Advanced Robotics) to identify Canada's strengths and future opportunities in the use of robotic assisted interventions ...

Since being designated a regional service and following the completion of the new building at Southlake in Newmarket, the Regional Cardiac Care Program has grown, including the introduction of Perfusion Services staffed by a team of six highly skilled allied ...

The images of parents grieving over the bodies of their children drove many people to give from their hearts and wallets when an earthquake and tsunami hit parts of South East Asia. Canada's DART team was deployed to Sri Lanka ...

It's a case of kill the cancer, save the kidney. More than 2,000 Canadians are diagnosed with kidney cancer each year. The standard treatment for renal cancer is total or partial nephrectomy - major surgery that removes the whole or part ...

Capital Health's Stollery Children's Hospital is the only hospital in Western Canada using a unique facial animation surgery to put smiles back on the faces of children with facial paralysis. Dr. Jaret Olson, Assistant Professor of Plastic and Pediatric Surgery and ...

To meet the increasing demand for expert surgical training and education, the University of Toronto's Surgical Skills Centre is primed to undergo a major expansion doubling its size and increasing its capabilities to train medical students and surgeons. The state-of-the-art educational ...

Lakeridge Health Whitby (LHW) is a specialty hospital offering Complex Continuing Care, Geriatrics, Rehabilitation and Outpatient Dialysis to residents in Durham Region. "Durham Region's senior population is growing at a rate that is nearly double the provincial average (20% vs. ...