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National Nursing Week, May 6 to 12, is a time to recognize the essential role nurses play in health care. This year’s theme, “The Power of Nurses to Transform Health,” chosen by the Canadian Nurses Association, highlights the profound impact nurses have on patient and resident care, as well as the...

By merging world class care with research and artificial intelligence, St. Joseph’s Health Care London is catching falls before they happen. They wreak havoc on independence and well-being, making them one Canada’s most pressing health challenges: falls. A leading cause of injury-related...

If science were a baseball game, Thuvaraha Jeyakumaran’s batting average would rank her an all-star in her first major-league season. For the third consecutive time, the research coordinator and knowledge-mobilization specialist at St. Joseph’s Parkwood Institute has become an award-winner for three...

Ellen Bentulan describes the experience of being Niya Manu’s nursing preceptor like watching a butterfly spread its wings. Over the course of her eight-week placement on the Palliative Care Unit at St. Joseph’s Health Care London’s (St. Joseph’s) Parkwood Institute, Ellen watched the young nursing...

For Navpreet Kaur, a seasoned registered nurse in the Endoscopy Clinic at St. Joseph’s Hospital, taking care of a patient’s physical illness is only part of a nurse’s responsibilities. After 17 years of nursing, she understands that listening to a patient and their families, answering their...

According to Asthma Canada, asthma is the third most common disease in our nation, affecting more than 3.8 Million people. While there is no one cause or cure for asthma, there are triggers asthma sufferers should avoid and ways to control their condition. On the latest episode of the DocTalks...

If there is common denominator among this year’s recipients of the Sisters of St. Joseph Awards for Excellence, it’s their secret – or not so secret – superpower. The ability to create connections with profound empathy, compassion and sincerity. The three recipients fill very different roles yet all...

What is the most rewarding part of your role at St. Joseph’s? I’m very lucky to be a physician, researcher and leader at St. Joseph’s. The most rewarding part of my job is the ability to create new ways of caring for people with endocrine and bone disease, implement and then study them through...

Missing out on his grandfather’s final days, Alex Wu finds meaning in his role as a volunteer on the Palliative Care Unit at Parkwood Institute. Alex Wu wasn’t able to be with his grandfather when he died, missing a final goodbye that stays with him today. The fourth-year medical sciences student at...