Pediatrics

How Peer Support empowers “our kind of nursing” at SickKids

The Peer Support and Trauma Response program at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is there for staff when they need it, and sometimes even before. When the program began in 2018 – it was the first hospital-wide program of its kind in Canada –...

World first discoveries allow researchers to accurately diagnose prenatal exposure syndromes and birth disorders

Researchers at London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) and Lawson Health Research Institute are using advanced technology and artificial intelligence (AI) to diagnose rare diseases and prenatal exposure-related birth abnormalities in two studies published today in American Journal of Human Genetics and Genetics in Medicine.  The...

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Need for streamlined miscarriage care in Canada

Miscarriage, or early pregnancy loss, can have devastating emotional effects, but it is poorly...

Ontario youth experiencing increasing levels of psychological distress and inability to cope

One-in-six students report serious thoughts of suicide in the past year. The Centre for Addiction...

Combatting high blood pressure in kids globally through big-data research

Young adults who had undiagnosed and unmanaged high blood pressure as children face a...

Listeria in pregnancy can be deadly

With the recent listeria cases and food recalls in the news in Canada, it...

Babies get faster care from expanded newborn screening program

Like most babies, Nathan Bonner had his tiny foot pricked to collect a drop...

Hospital News’ Annual Pediatric Supplement

Everyone living in Canada desires and deserves a healthy life. We collectively imagine a...

The early years last a lifetime

Every child develops differently. Many meet their developmental milestones; some don’t. A 2015 Ontario...

The Extensive Needs Service is transforming lives

Kairo, who was prone to self-injurious and eloping behaviours, can now go to the...

Sunnybrook leads in clinical outcomes for the sickest and smallest babies

Amit and Natasha Arora recall their fear during their son’s 135-day stay in Sunnybrook’s...

Canadian Pediatric Nursing Standards

The Canadian Association of Pediatric Nurses (CAPN) is a national network of nurses passionate...

Better together. Community partnerships enable family-centered care.

With only 16 specialty Pediatric hospitals serving the entire country, travel to access healthcare...

Researchers find a possible therapeutic target in the “genetic landscape” of aggressive and deadly pediatric brain tumours

Posterior fossa group A (PFA) ependymoma are rare, treatment-resistant pediatric tumours of the central...

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