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May 20, 2016
Imagine a walled city. What would happen if a wily soldier found a way to loosen one brick in the sky-high barricade? In a new study led by SickKids, a team of basic scientists tackled this scenario, trying to break down a wall that protects the …

Science Show & Tell: Happy 150th, Canada!
January 13, 2017
Just in time to kick off the country’s 150th anniversary, a team of researchers from The Centre for Applied Genomics (TCAG) at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) has successfully sequenced the genome of Castor canadensis – the Canadian …

Dr. Zulfiqar Bhutta receives prestigious Gairdner Foundation award for work in maternal-child health
April 5, 2022
Dr. Bhutta receives the John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award in recognition of global health research and interventions in the ‘first 1,000 days’ of life.

February 16, 2017
An Ontario research team led by The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) examined the use of electronic medical records to track rates of overweight and obesity in children.

SickKids first hospital in North America to use new dialysis treatment for paediatric care
March 10, 2016
The Dialysis and Apheresis team at SickKids have spent the last five years working to implement a new dialysis system called haemodiafiltration to tackle the poor patient outcomes associated with previous forms of dialysis treatments.

May 6, 2019
Children in lower-income areas are at a higher risk of being injured by motor vehicles than those living in higher-income neighbourhoods in Ontario, according to a new study from SickKids, York University and ICES.

One tough conversation has the power to save eight lives
April 18, 2016
Diana Lee, Organ and Tissue Donation Coordinator for Trillium Gift of Life Network at SickKids, has a very unique position that helps families through the difficult but meaningful decision to donate their child's organs. To gain a better …

Scientists ‘reverse engineer’ brain cancer cells to find new targets for treatment
April 15, 2019
Glioblastoma is one of the most devastating forms of cancer, with few existing treatment options. Scientists have ‘reverse engineered’ brain cancer stem cells gene by gene, uncovering multiple potential targets for this hard-to-treat cancer.

July 27, 2020
SickKids researchers have shown that metformin, a common drug used to treat type-2 diabetes, could one day be used to repair brain injury.
