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Children’s Hospital receives international recognition for supportive care in cancer

November 22, 2022 Committed to establishing innovative best practices, supportive care at Children’s Hospital enables paediatric health care teams to prevent and manage the adverse effects of cancer itself and its treatment, including both physical and psychological symptoms. Oncology research in...

Psychologists provide important supports for long COVID patients at LHSC

March 14, 2023 Dr. Heather Getty and Dr. Lynn Rennison, Psychologists at London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC), have been providing support for patients experiencing what has become known as long COVID. Patients with long COVID experience a wide range of persistent and sometimes disabling physical...

LHSC’s Nuclear Medicine program designated as Comprehensive Radiopharmaceutical Therapy Center of Excellence

One of Ontario’s largest nuclear medicine programs is recognized for its leadership and advancement in the areas of quality of care, patient access, program offering, research, training and procedure frequency. March 20, 2023 (LONDON, Ontario) – Looking at London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) from...

“Screening is so important. It caught my cancer early.” – A colon cancer patient story

March 20, 2023 Kate Hannah has been regularly screening for colon cancer with a FIT (fecal immunochemical test) for years. Until recently, each FIT she took came back clear. However, her most recent FIT results were abnormal, and on January 13, 2023, when she had her first colonoscopy, a large polyp...

LHSC’s Nuclear Medicine receives Center of Excellence designation

March 21, 2023 As home to one of Ontario’s largest and most comprehensive Nuclear Medicine programs, London Health Sciences Centre was recently designated as a Comprehensive Radiopharmaceutical Therapy Center of Excellence by the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI). The...

LHSC pauses elective surgeries and some procedures

For Immediate Release: March 21, 2023 (London, Ontario) - Our Medical Device Reprocessing team has identified an issue with our surgical trays. Out of an abundance of caution, we cancelled all elective surgeries and some procedures for the remainder of today (March 21) and all of tomorrow (March 22)...

LHSC to resume elective surgeries and procedures starting tomorrow

March 22, 2023 (LONDON, Ontario) - London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) has identified and isolated the source of light staining identified on its surgical trays. It has been identified that the light staining originated from the steam system used to process surgical equipment at University Hospital...

LHSC pauses elective surgeries and some procedures

March 21, 2023 (London, Ontario) - Our Medical Device Reprocessing team has identified an issue with our surgical trays. Out of an abundance of caution, we cancelled all elective surgeries and some procedures for the remainder of today (March 21) and all of tomorrow (March 22) to investigate and...

LHSC celebrates record number of babies born in 2022

February 14, 2023 (LONDON, Ontario) – London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) is celebrating an exciting milestone: last year, the hospital delivered a record number of babies between January 1 and December 31. In total, there were 6,139 births, a three per cent increase from LHSC’s previous record of...

LHSC performs advanced, life-saving aortic procedure using device for the first time in North America

February 7, 2023 (LONDON, Ontario) - When 66-year-old Jeff Pitman from London, Ontario, experienced an aortic dissection and aneurysm compromising blood flow to his legs and kidneys, a team of vascular surgeons at London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) were the first in North America to use the...