It’s 4 a.m. on a Tuesday morning. While most of Durham Region is sound asleep, Peter Robinson and his wife Mary awaken to give Peter his regular dialysis. Instead of heading to a Lakeridge Health site, training from the hospital’s RNs ...

“We didn’t know how my son and I would get home from BC Children’s Hospital to Prince George, then my mother-in-law heard about Hope Air,” says Stefanie, mother of two-year-old James, who has leukemia. Stefanie and James were sent by ...

Chronic hepatitis B and C are silent epidemics affecting an estimated 600,000 Canadians of all ages. The statistics are ‘estimated’ because many are unaware that they have these diseases. Of those that have been diagnosed, only a fraction have been ...

Over the last decade, the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology (CAG) has undertaken several important initiatives to help improve access to timely, high quality digestive health care for Canadians. CAG was one of the first national specialty societies inCanada, and the ...

  In an effort to offer continued support to children and youth undergoing surgery, the operating room (OR) staff at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), implemented a program that allows parents to be present during the anaesthetic induction of ...

Volunteers are the lifeblood of non-profit organizations, but how many of them rely primarily on volunteers to realize their vision? At the core of ORBIS is its flagship Flying Eye Hospital, the world’s first hospital with wings and most recognizable ...

Mental health is becoming a concern for all Canadians. Incidence rates are rising and people are not receiving help early enough. This manifests itself through absenteeism, low morale, and illness. The hospital environment, a place of high stress, is no ...

When the shovel hit the ground this spring for St. Joseph’s new mental health buildings, the soil was turning on a new era. “This is a once in a lifetime opportunity,” says Dave Crockett, vice president, facilities planning at St. ...

Pivotal research from Mount Sinai Hospital points to key genes and early molecular events implicated in common psychiatric illnesses. Specifically, three researchers under the supervision of Dr. John Roder, a senior scientist at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount ...

Researchers at Montreal hospitals were in the forefront of an international team that recently announced a breakthrough discovery in understanding some forms of leukodystrophy, a debilitating and ultimately fatal neurodegenerative disease that appears in childhood. Their research found that a ...