The gift of a donated cornea restored Jennifer Barton’s vision and changed her life. The gift of vision changed Jennifer Barton’s life. The effects of chronic eye rubbing as a child from uncontrolled allergies left Jennifer with corneas so thin she ...

  From left to right:Dr. David Higgins, President, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton; Mr. Rick Badzioch, Clinical Director, Nephrology Program, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton; Ms. Sera Filice-Armenio, President & CEO, St. Joseph’s Healthcare FoundationDr. Darin Treleaven, Head of Service, Nephrology Program, ...

There are many areas of controversy about how dialysis should be administered to patients with acute kidney injury. During his training as a nephrologist, Dr. Ron Wald became interested in conducting clinical trials to determine the best way to treat ...

Despite the challenges they face with childhood arthritis, children like Emily-Marie Tonner have a positive outlook on life. Imagine you are a seven-year-old child, full of energy, happiness and with a lust for life. Playing outside with friends is your ...

Sandra George, who is trying to raise awareness about scleroderma, has worked closely on her journey with public health nurse Amber Macadam (left). Sandra George doesn’t go out much these days, but that hasn’t stopped her from changing the world ...

Theresa has Scleroderma. In the past two years she was had numerous hospital stays and ER visits associated with complications of her disease that range from gastroparesis to kidney failure. All too often, when in hospital, she encounters physicians and ...

Diabetes is a complex chronic disease, one that demands a lifelong process of adjustment and a continual search for different ways of coping. Individuals may go through shock, denial, anger, sadness, and acceptance, similar to emotions that one would experience during ...

For the six million Canadians living with high blood pressure, a new smartphone application has the potential to put the power back in the patients’ hands. Dr. Alexander Logan, a nephrologist at Mount Sinai Hospital, together with Dr. Joseph Cafazzo from ...

Often witnessing a child’s beauty will reel us back to a simpler time when song and dance superseded all hardships of growing up. For little Alysha Dykstra her dream of song and dance were replaced by a disharmony of beeps ...

  St. Joseph's Health Centre’s Diabetes Clinic team is using new strategies that are enhancing their interprofessional approach to care, which have improved wait times for clinic appointments, improved the patient care experience and increased staff satisfaction. Over the past two years, ...