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It's not unusual for a visit to a family physician to end in a referral to a specialist in the quest for more information or treatment for a specific condition or health concern. As patients across the country know, it may take some time before an...
Intensive care patients who survive a critical illness can experience weakness and other limitations to their function long after they leave hospital. Now a unique, multi-site study being conducted through the Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC)...
A new study out of Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) is helping to shed some light on a serious but often misunderstood health condition. Delirium has been shown to have critical long-term impact on the most seriously ill patients, but still has...
After two long years mired in a pandemic, it's safe to assume that many people will be hitting the road this summer, taking advantage of the warmer weather and easing COVID-19 safety measures. That's especially true here in Southeastern Ontario where...
Saving lives is the specialty of trauma experts at Kingston Health Sciences Centre and now they're taking the basics of one of their most critical skills--stopping uncontrollable bleeding--directly to the public. The goal is to train people to act...
Kingston, an epicentre of Lyme disease, is now home to a new multidisciplinary research network that will bring together scientists, physicians, and patients to further investigate the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of this tick-borne illness...
April 6, 2017 There's a distinctly local face to this year's National Advance Care Planning Day campaign. The Canada-wide initiative, which takes place on Sunday, April 16, is being launched this week with a new video featuring five Kingston...
Facing the challenges of a life-limiting illness is a difficult time for many patients in our area and accessing the services they need to improve their quality of life can be confusing. That is why Kingston General Hospital (KGH) has partnered with...
Over 50 per cent of people in developed countries will experience at least one episode of low back pain during their lifetime. Back pain is a common reason patients see their family practitioner and is responsible for more than half of opioid...
A multidisciplinary team of Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) staff were recently awarded a grand prize of $100,000 from Merck Canada and MaRS Discovery District (MaRS) Lung Cancer Innovation Challenge. The competition challenged innovators to...
