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Donors funded St. Joseph’s first da Vinci robot in 2005. Nearly 20 years later, they’re doing it again. In 2008, St. Joseph’s urologist Dr. Stephen Pautler was invited to mentor a Toronto surgeon completing his first robotic surgery. During the media scrum that followed, a reporter asked Dr. Pautler...

Sometimes, it’s the little changes that make the biggest difference. And thanks to a recent grant through St. Joseph’s Health Care Foundation made possible through the generosity of donors, that’s what’s happened in the 2 Perth unit in the Veterans Care program. After several months of...

After living with treatment resistant depression for years, Lori Linton is feeling rejuvenated thanks to innovations in mental health care.

It’s been almost nine years since Rob Staffen was in an accident that would change his life forever. Staffen was cycling down a mountain near Palm Springs, California in October 2012 when suddenly his road bike malfunctioned, catapulting him head-first into the rock-strewn desert landscape. The...

You likely wouldn’t know Dr. Graham King is one of Canada’s most accomplished orthopaedic surgeons unless you heard it first from a patient, colleague or international specialist. Quietly modest, he isn’t apt to tell you the elbow implant he and his team developed is now one of the most widely used...

It’s one of the most exciting areas of research in cancer care. Making waves in scientific and health care circles worldwide, it holds the potent potential to “jazz up” cells that attack cancer and boost the body’s response to treatment. So what is this powerful ally? It’s poop in a pill – home...