Like a fine wine, Hospital News is getting better with age. As we commemorate 25 years of being Canada’s Health Care Newspaper, we are celebrating (with you our loyal readers) with the launch of a brand-new, completely redesigned website. If we were ...

Since Women’s College Hospital began a century ago, it has had a rich history of strong women leaders with a single mission in mind: to be at the forefront of groundbreaking innovations in the health of women. In 1883, Dr. Emily ...

Harold Hatton is ready to go home. Perched on the end of his bed he’s just waiting for a Royal Victoria Hospital (RVH) volunteer to arrive to porter him to the main entrance. With much gusto, his porter arrives and that’s ...

The BC Children’s Hospital renal program launched a transition clinic in 2007, with the goal of increasing survival rates among adolescents transferring from pediatric to adult renal services. Headed by pediatric   nephrologist Dr. Mina Matsuda-Abedini, a clinical investigator at the Child ...

Three years ago, Jack Cheung’s failing kidneys were destroying his quality of life. “I couldn’t work for more than two hours at a time,” says the 58-year-old automotive technician. “My hands would cramp, my feet were swollen and I couldn’t stand ...

Volunteers give freely of their time and expertise to enhance patients’ lives. But last year the need surfaced at St. Joseph’s Health Care London to increase the satisfaction level of volunteers with their assignments, and of staff members with the ...

Today, the increasing demand for health care, coupled with rising delivery costs, makes having a strong volunteer base more critical than ever. Volunteers continue to play an integral role in the health care system and one that is more essential ...

Volunteers are an integral part of any organization, but often, volunteers are behind the scenes and on the sidelines. When Markham Stouffville Hospital introduced the Expect Respect program at the Markham site of the hospital, volunteers were put front and ...

“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”  This quote, penned by the late John Lennon, resonates with Carole Hanks.  Carole understands how easy it can be to get caught up in daily activities and dismiss ...

Older adults taking the antibiotic combination trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX)—widely prescribed for urinary tract infections—are at increased risk of elevated potassium levels, called hyperkalemia, according to a study released in the July issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of ...