Popular

St. Joseph’s is proud of our speech language pathologists and communicative disorders assistant working across St. Joseph’s during this challenging time. May is Better Speech and Hearing Month. The COVID-19 pandemic has posed distinct challenges for many health care professionals – and patients –...

The wildlife in the back garden at Parkwood Institute got a little wilder with the arrival of some out-of-town visitors. Falconer Mike Shore brought three of his birds of prey – "Doc Holliday" the juvenile bald eagle, "Emmy Lou" the Harris hawk and "Loretta Lynn" the eurasian eagle owl – for a visit...

What do you know about the people you pass in the hall or see in the cafeteria every day? What do they do at St. Joseph’s? Here we will introduce you to a member of the St. Joseph’s family, recognizing their contribution to respect, excellence and compassion. With twenty years of experience working...

DocTalks community lecture series returns in 2019 with an impressive lineup Back by popular demand, the DocTalks program hopes to build on its inaugural success with six new talks scheduled for 2019. The lectures are a way for the public to learn valuable health information directly from physicians...

You can’t rely on symptoms to know if you have HIV. Tremendous progress has been made in the response to AIDS/HIV since the virus infection first emerged in the 1980s, but not enough. While HIV treatment now allows people to live much longer, healthier lives and is highly effective in preventing HIV...

The numbers are startling. Half of all limb amputations in Ontario are directly related to diabetes. Of those, 85 per cent are a result of a foot ulcer (breakdown of the skin) that won’t heal. The impact is devastating, even deadly. Nearly 70 per cent of limb amputees with diabetes will not survive...