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November 13, 2017
Inhaled corticosteroids do not increase risk of fracture in children with asthma: study
Daily use of inhaled corticosteroids does not increase the risk of bone fracture in children with asthma, according to a new study by researchers at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) and The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids).
November 10, 2017
Client Staci, now 15, shared her story on Nov. 9 at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, where patients, families, and teams gathered to celebrate the second anniversary of Get Up and Go: Persistent Paediatric Pain Service. The service is a collaboration between Holland Bloorview and SickKids.
November 9, 2017
SickKids named one of Canada's Top 100 Employers for 2018!
SickKids has been named once again as one of Canada's Top 100 Employers by Mediacorp Canada Inc.!
November 9, 2017
SickKids ranks No. 2 on Canada’s Top 40 Research Hospitals list for 2017
SickKids is proud to have once again been named one of Canada’s Top 40 Research Hospitals by Research Infosource Inc.
November 8, 2017
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) announced today the appointment of SickKids Senior Scientist Dr. Norman Rosenblum as the new Scientific Director of CIHR’s Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes.
November 1, 2017
Safety coaches are helping us to care safely everywhere, every day
As part of the Caring Safely initiative over 85 per cent of staff at SickKids have completed error prevention training. But we know that just like trying a new sport, learning new skills and techniques at work can be challenging. With so many priorities, it can be difficult to integrate what you've learned in a class in your work routines. That's where Safety Coaches come in.
October 31, 2017
SickKids comes together to bring the Halloween atmosphere to patients and families
For many decades, SickKids has embraced the festive traditions to bring Halloween’s fun atmosphere to its patients. We celebrated Halloween this year with a day full of activities including face painting, a costume shop, a costume and a pumpkin carving contest, as well as a scavenger hunt throughout the hospital.
October 31, 2017
From closed doors to sitting at the table: The birth of child and family-centered care at SickKids
Today, SickKids has a comprehensive model of child and family-centred care that recognizes the child is at the core of care and the family is central to the child’s life and therefore central to their care as well. However, looking back at SickKids’ history, it wasn’t always this way.
October 26, 2017
Published Oct. 26 online in Science, scientists at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) determined the structure of the energy powerhouse within our cells, the mitochondrial ATP synthase, for the first time at sufficient resolution to reveal the arrangement of its atoms.
October 24, 2017
SickKids awarded Exemplary Standing from Accreditation Canada
SickKids has been awarded Accreditation with Exemplary Standing, the highest standing possible from Accreditation Canada!
October 19, 2017
SickKids scientists create new way to classify cancers based on unique hypermutant footprint
A game-changing study by SickKids suggests there could be a day where cancers are not classified by their tissue of origin (i.e. brain cancer, breast cancer, colon cancer) but rather by the number and type of genetic mutations they carry. The study is published in the Oct. 19 online edition of Cell.
October 18, 2017
Children’s temperaments linked to time spent outdoors
Researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) set out to determine whether temperament was related to an area that hasn’t been examined before – outdoor play. The findings are published in Academic Pediatrics.