St. Joseph’s Health System & Niagara Health launch new pilot surveillance project to protect the most vulnerable in our health system April 20, 2020 – COVID-19 has had a devasting effect within many congregate care facilities caring for vulnerable elderly residents, prompting the Ontario government to call for greater testing in long-term care and retirement […]
BY DON MITCHELL GLOBAL NEWS Two well-known philanthropists are set to give Hamilton health researchers a $3.3-million boost to help fund urgent research projects connected to the COVID-19 pandemic and mental health. In a letter to the community, Charles and Margaret Juravinski say they are donating funds to free everyone from the “terrible virus,” and […]
Jennifer La Grassa · CBC News · Posted: Apr 01, 2020 A team of international experts, including medical specialists from Hamilton and Toronto universities and research institutes has produced guidelines on how to care for COVID-19 patients in intensive care. The team managed to put the guidelines together in less than three weeks, instead of following the typical process […]
Tom Salisbury was a healthy, active firefighter when he suddenly fell ill in 2014 and was diagnosed with a rare auto-immune disease. NEWS Feb 13, 2020 by Katrina Clarke The Hamilton Spectator Tom Salisbury was a healthy, active 54-year-old firefighter who one day couldn’t shake a cold. Then he started coughing up blood. Salisbury was […]
On Friday, January 17, neuroscience researchers from around the world, including a delegation from the world-renowned Pasteur Institute in Paris and the University of Bordeaux, will be at St. Joe’s West 5th Campus for St. Joe’s Clinical Neuroscience Symposium. Tomorrow’s symposium will focus on cellular and immune system processes related to mood disorders, such as depression […]
World-Renowned Scientist, Water Polo Olympian, St. Joe’s Research Leader and Delta Secondary School Graduate Receives Canada’s Highest Honour A brilliant scientist and a world-class athlete, Jack Gauldie could have taken his career to any locale around the globe. The renowned scientist chose to maintain his address in the city where he was raised, Hamilton, while […]