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From his sprawling property on Wolfe Island, Andy Aitken speaks about his love for the outdoors. He loves canoeing and camping, but as recently as a couple of years ago, all these activities felt completely out of reach.
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...
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...
The Echocardiography Lab at Kingston General Hospital is a busy place, performing roughly 7,000 tests per-year, each one requiring different specialties and skill levels. Recently the Cardiac Care Network (CCN) of Ontario was here to watch the team...
Thanks to valuable feedback from our patients, the blood collection room in our Burr Wing has now been relocated to a new and bigger space. Patients receiving treatment for cancer or a kidney disease are now directed to this new room when they need...
Retired Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officer John Hill is a passionate man. He cares deeply for his friends and family. He believes in the positive impact policing can have on communities. As a status member of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte, he...
While volunteer Don Cooper wasn't sure if he'd be wearing red on Feb. 14, he knows that he'll be at his usual hospital post on Valentine's Day, ready--as always--to try and make life a little easier for people whose hearts need some extra special car...
A KGHRI clinician scientist who pioneered the use of 3D ultrasound to assess heart disease is taking his imaging research into new territory. Dr. Amer Johri, who is also assistant professor of echocardiography at Queen's University, uses 3D...
The Cardiac Procedures Unit is where over 4,000 life-changing tests and procedures are performed each year, and along with the rest of the Cardiac program at KHSC, it is the only one of its kind in southeastern Ontario.
Kingstonian Kristen Jones has been followed by Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) cardiologists since she was diagnosed, at two years old, with a bicuspid aortic valve. It's a congenital condition that means she was born with an aortic valve with...