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Stephen Yeo, Spiritual Care supervisor-educator, in the chapel at St. Joseph’s Southwest Centre for Forensic Mental Health Care.

"A real strength for living" Patients benefit from Spiritual Care services at Southwest Centre

Years ago, during an evening chapel service for patients held at Southwest Centre, a volunteer from the community began the service by saying he was there to pray on behalf of “all these wonderful people,” so they would know they were loved. Afterward, Stephen Yeo, Spiritual Care supervisor-educator at Southwest Centre, rode the elevator with one of the patients on the way back to his unit. As he often does, he asked how the service had been for him. "He looked at me and said, 'He called us wonderful people,'" Yeo recalls. "Usually, patients will say the music was nice, or the reflection was...

Capturing Bacteria’s Grand Ballet

Within each of us is a world populated by a bustling metropolis of microorganisms – a tapestry of trillions in a delicate dance to balance health, well-being and vitality. Far outnumbering human cells, this dynamic ecosystem of busy bacteria, industrious fungi and elusive viruses is the body’s...

Revolutionizing rehab

St. Joseph’s is setting a long-time vision into motion. “Five years ago, we had a vision of leveraging our long history and expertise in providing innovative rehabilitation treatments to improve the lives of people with mobility needs on a larger scale,” says Roy Butler, President and CEO of St...

Changing our MINDS

The words and images are both heartbreaking and hopeful. “Nobody likes you if you are sad.” you are enough. stay strong. let life surprise you. “Please don’t leave like everyone else.” 1 year sober. 1 year of school. 1 year building a safe home. 1 year loving myself. Zine-writing, a personal and...

Illuminating the body's smallest secrets

Tucked behind the protective lower walls of St. Joseph’s Hospital lies a futuristic workshop of sorts – a place where science, technology and leading-edge medical care converge. Within a behemoth, 62-ton machine, a swirling vortex of powerful magnetic fields and electric pulses is creating bursts of...

Poop in a pill helping advance cancer care

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...

Discovery-driven, patient-focused

As the research arm and integral partner of St. Joseph’s Health Care London, Lawson Research Institute (Lawson) is one of Canada’s premier health institutes. For more than 40 years, a culture of curiosity and innovation has propelled Lawson to become a renowned leader in work that improves the lives...

Keeping an Eye on Care of the Future

While in university, Dr. Khaldon Abbas had a deeply moving experience as a volunteer with the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture (CCVT) that changed the trajectory of his life and career. The community-based organization helps victims of war and torture, and Abbas, whose family immigrated to...

Dementia research hits the ‘mark’

Dr. Michael Borrie is now seeing grandchildren of patients who came to his clinic when he first started Alzheimer’s research 30 years ago. His message to this new generation is more hopeful than ever, bolstered by ever-more-reliable ways of early detection and being tantalizingly close to a future...

Investing in Life-Changing Research

Through donor support, endowed research chairs are exploring and answering some of the most profound and complex research questions of our time. Among cherished family photos and special mementos in the office of Jeremy Burton, PhD, is a slightly faded photo of a young woman. Burton points out the...