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For some families in Kingston, just the thought of getting their teenager booked for a COVID-19 vaccine is a daunting one. For some children, the sights and sounds of a mass-vaccination clinic can be just too overwhelming to navigate. For others, the...
Once again, the KGH Auxiliary at the Kingston General Hospital (KGH) site of Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) has shot past its fundraising goal for its annual Teddy Bear Campaign, raising more than $32,600--well beyond its $25,000 target--to...
When Stephanie Rutherford's four-year-old son Remy began to show signs that he was getting sick, she would have never imagined that more than two weeks later they'd be laying in a hospital bed in Kingston more than 400 kilometers from home. But her...
Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) has become the first in North America to offer a unique surgical procedure to treat patients with a complex aortic disease known as an aortic dissection, a life-threatening condition in which the largest artery...
It's not often that new technology checks off the big priorities at Kingston Health Sciences Centre all at once but the launch of an advanced digital slit lamp in Ophthalmology is doing exactly that. In an ocular exam, a slit lamp is vital equipment...
Paediatric infectious diseases experts from Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC), The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), CHEO, the Children's Hospital at London Health Sciences Centre and McMaster Children's Hospital (MCH) have issued a joint...
It's a parent's worst nightmare; their child is in hospital and suffers a heart attack or stops breathing. A new initiative being rolled out in Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) is looking to avoid that by detecting early warning signs of...
It's a busy time for the Automated Drug Cabinet projectat Kingston General Hospital. Kidd 5 just went live with a new cabinet on October 30 and staff on Kidd 6 are slated to begin using the system on November 19. Connell 10 will follow a week later o...
Daniel Mackinnon and Joshua Abrams' journey to become parents wasn't an easy one. Not only did the married couple from Ottawa spend nearly a year navigating a sometimes-complicated adoption process, but they were thrown the ultimate curveball when...
A Magnetic Resonance Imaging machine is one of the most technologically advanced pieces of equipment in the hospital. It supports the care of all types of patients, ranging from complex cancer, cardiac and pediatric patients, to the hockey player who...