Organ and Tissue Donation: The Facts
Today in Ontario there are over 1,500 people waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant. This is their only treatment option. Every three days someone will…
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Navigating the Public School System with Chronic Illness
The challenges of supporting a child or teen with a chronic illness are daunting. The fear, the exhaustion, the work to get a diagnosis and then…
The Flu and You
Anyone is at risk for getting the flu (also known as influenza).The flu is an acute respiratory infection caused by influenza viruses which circulate in…
Workplace Violence in Healthcare
When we consider the working conditions of healthcare workers, we think about underfunding, long shifts and too many patients in the care of too few…
Decoding Annie Parker: Living with Genetic Cancer
By Karen Sheviak Today, it seems like we’ve always known about a genetic component to cancer. But the reality is that it has only…
My Path in Nursing
By Amber McCarthy RN BScN CVAA (c) ACLS (c) My career started in long-term care and ranged from acute care in the hospital to nursing…
Hospital Innovations: North York General Hospital
North York General Hospital’s breast cancer care program has become the first hospital in Canada to receive full accreditation from the National Accreditation Program for…
Hospital Innovations: London Health Sciences Centre
The team at London Health Sciences Centre became the first in Canada to perform a new surgical technique on cardiac patients. Called the transcaval approach…