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October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and experts at Kingston Health Sciences Centre's (KHSC) new Breast Imaging Kingston (BIK) facility are encouraging eligible individuals to book an appointment for a mammogram. The push is part of a campaign...
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...
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...
On the evening of Tuesday, October 17 more than 170 people gathered at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts for BRA (Breast Reconstruction Awareness) Day, a special event geared to educating and informing women about their options around...
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...
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...
For women who face a breast cancer diagnosis, connecting with others who have gone through a similar experience and learning about treatment options are important steps to managing their diagnosis. To help women with this process, the Cancer Centre...