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Top 10 tips for a safe school year for children with food allergies: What your allergist wants you to know
Dr. Samira Jeimy at St. Joseph’s Hospital has important advice for parents of youngsters with food allergies starting school this fall. Starting school is a major life step for youngsters as well as their parents. But when a child has a food allergy, that happy milestone can also be fraught with...
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Revolutionary new breast imaging technology comes to St. Joseph’s
St. Joseph's Hospital, part of St. Joseph’s Health Care London, has become the first Canadian hospital to install the latest in mammography technology that allows patients to personally control and adjust the rate of compression during the exam. The Senographe Pristina designed by GE Healthcare is a...
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Celebrating Heroism
This June, St. Joseph’s Health Care Foundation hosted its annual Hall of Heroes celebration, an event highlighting the unwavering support of the community and the inspiring spirit of Canada’s Veterans. The Veterans Care Program at Parkwood Institute is home to nearly 100 Veterans and service men and...
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National award honours innovator Frank Prato’s excellence in medical physics
Frank Prato is a man of many firsts: First in Canada to conduct magnetic resonance brain imaging. A pioneer in magnetic resonance cardiac imaging. Driving force behind the installation of Canada’s first PET/MR scanner. Founder of the Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists (COMP) while president...
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Wearing a Poppy Correctly
Veteran George Beardshaw, resident of the Veterans Care Program, demonstrates the how and why of properly wearing a Poppy. When is a Poppy worn? {"preview_thumbnail":"/sites/default/files/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview/public/video_thumbnails/dxFJ4JuiRC0.jpg?itok=1jobtJDx","video_url":"https:/...
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The right kind of treatment
After living with treatment resistant depression for years, Lori Linton is feeling rejuvenated thanks to innovations in mental health care.
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The scoop on poop
Like blood transfusions, fecal transplants save lives. Don't flush away an opportunity to help. Learn about fecal transplants and how anyone can be a poop donor. It’s inevitable that any conversation with Dr. Michael Silverman loops around to poop. Few get as excited at the mention of this bodily...
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World Labyrinth Days highlight how this form of ‘walking meditation’ can benefit everyone
Following a labyrinth is a spiritual practice that’s good for body, mind and spirit. It leads to increased calm, reduced blood pressure and stress, and improved mental health and well-being, say researchers and patient care experts at St. Joseph’s Southwest Centre for Forensic Mental Health Care...
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‘Discovery comes from great questions’
When Lisa Porter was barely old enough to read, her parents bought a family-sized set of encyclopedias from a door-to-door salesperson. The A-to-Z world was suddenly at the six-year-old’s fingertips, in books that answered more questions than she knew how to ask. Today, as the new Vice President...
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