The wait is over for a solution to more accessible hip and knee replacements in Ontario. With an innovative approach to increase capacity, Total Joint Network (TJN), a Greater Toronto Area program, is now up and running. A partnership of ...

Granted Ministry funding in 1991, The Arthritis Program (T.A.P.) at Southlake Regional Health Centre has developed into a leader in its field in the way it delivers care to patients. A team committed to pushing the envelope, they are currently ...

Dr. Gordon Hardacre is a man of action. This past June, he celebrated 35 years as a family physician, a distinguished career of serving the Toronto community as a doctor, researcher, teacher and advocate. Very little slows Dr. Hardacre down, ...

As part of The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval process for selected U.S. orthopaedic surgeons, The Scarborough Hospital (TSH) hosted, in May, an instructional course on the Oxford Knee replacement surgery via video feed to the Park Hyatt Hotel ...

"So many doctors didn't know about (fibromyalgia). They kept sending me to psychiatrists who asked why I didn't like school." Alice Norton can think of only one word to describe her daughter Phoebe's descent into debilitating pain and fatigue. "Horrible," she ...

Ten years ago there was a vision. Could a unique clinical program be developed that would be based on a framework of excellence in clinical care, education and research, and be built upon a foundation of the principles of women's ...

Osteosarcome tumours will be facing a war on two fronts as researchers and physicians at Mount Sinai Hospital combine their knowledge and expertise in the hopes of developing targeted therapeutic strategies for patients. This multidisciplinary approach is a change from ...

Under bright operating room lights, the patient's brain lay exposed, a flap of skin and skull removed to expose it to the probing of delicate surgical instruments. The surgical team huddled, talking in low tones as neurosurgeon Balraj Jhawar probed the ...

In the early '80s, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) sent waves of shock around the world as more than 24.8 million people died from Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or AIDS. As their immune systems weakened, people suffered the rampant effects of ...

It's written all over her face. Whether a person is happy or sad, angry or frightened, most of us take for granted a certain ability to read facial emotions. Without that ability, our behaviour and responses may appear inappropriate, unfeeling ...