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MEDIA RELEASE For Immediate Release August 30, 2018 LHSC urges post-secondary students to think before taking risks LONDON, Ontario – “It was just one moment… one dumb decision… I felt the screw pop out of the railing, felt myself falling and thought, ‘this is it, I’m a goner’.” Cole Liley knows he...

MEDIA ADVISORY For Immediate Release September 17 , 2018 (LONDON, Ontario) – Surgeons at London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) have pioneered the use of a new trans-catheter aortic valve, offering patients faster recovery and better long-term outcomes than previously available. In a Canadian first...

MEDIA RELEASE For Immediate Release September 18, 2018 LONDON, Ontario – Surgeons at London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) have pioneered the use of a new trans-catheter aortic valve, offering patients faster recovery and better long-term outcomes than previously available. In a Canadian first, a...

MEDIA RELEASE For Immediate Release September 20, 2018 London, Ontario — London Health Sciences Centre is celebrating today ten years of partnership with the Ottawa Heart Institute’s Ottawa Model for Smoking Cessation (OMSC). Since the implementation of the OMSC in London Health Sciences Centre’s...

MEDIA RELEASE For Immediate Release January 19, 2017 (LONDON, Ontario) –LONDON, Ontario – The cardiac team at London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) is the first in Ontario to implant the Canadian made Neovasc Tiara transcatheter device to correct a leaky mitral valve. The surgery was successfully...

MEDIA ADVISORY For Immediate Release February 28 , 2017 (LONDON, Ontario) – Media are invited to attend the official ‘launch’ of Cornerstone Counselling, a pilot project of London Health Sciences Centre, delivered at Youth Opportunities Unlimited (YOU) in partnership with Canadian Mental Health...

MEDIA ADVISORY For Immediate Release April 4, 2017 (LONDON, Ontario) – Kicking off London Health Sciences Centre’s 2017 “Talk Trauma” Conference is an extrication demonstration by the London Fire Department highlighting the work of EMS professionals to safely extricate trauma victims before they can...

MEDIA RELEASE For Immediate Release April 6 , 2017 (LONDON, Ontario) - London Health Sciences Centre’s (LHSC) Cardiac Care Program is the first in Ontario to implant a leadless pacemaker, a tiny pacemaker without cardiac wires known as leads. Dr. Jaimie Manlucu, heart rhythm cardiologist, LHSC...

MEDIA RELEASE For Immediate Release May 17, 2017 LONDON, Ontario – The Victoria Day long weekend marks the unofficial start of summer. It also marks the start of the trauma season for London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC). Overall, 40 per cent of all major traumas present to LHSC between the Victoria...

MEDIA ADVISORY For Immediate Release May 30, 2017 (LONDON, Ontario) – Media is invited to attend the 24th Annual Teddy Bear Picnic at Children’s Hospital, London Health Sciences Centre. Volunteers, community sponsors, staff and physicians of Children’s Hospital have joined together to create a fun...