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‘Poop pill’ benefits may extend to treating kidney cancer, lung cancer and melanoma

Clinical trials suggest fecal transplants can prevent side effects in treating kidney cancer. It can also dramatically improve outcomes for people with lung and melanoma cancers. A groundbreaking study show that the toxic side effects of drugs to treat kidney cancer could be virtually eliminated with customized fecal microbiota transplants (FMT), a field where London excels. The discovery published in the prestigious Nature Medicine journal, was published simultaneously with another paper also in the same journal that suggests FMT is also effective in helping treat lung cancer and melanoma...

Finding solutions to a triple negative problem

For Dr. Armen Parsyan, clinical practice and scientific research are equally important components of his career. This Armenia-born clinician-researcher studied at Boston University, Harvard University, the University of Cambridge, McGill University and the University of Toronto before landing at...

Self-scheduling now available for breast screening appointments at St. Joseph’s Health Care London

A new online booking portal is making it easier for eligible patients to schedule their Ontario Breast Screening Program (OBSP) mammograms at St. Joseph’s Hospital. With recent changes to OBSP guidelines lowering the minimum screening age to 40 and broadening eligibility, thousands more people in...

Transforming frontline care

“The thing about spasticity is that if you've ever been in long term care, you've definitely seen it. You may not have known what it is, but you've seen it before,” says Amanda McIntyre, professor and nursing scientist, about the focus of her current study at St. Joseph’s Mount Hope Centre for Long...

From Different Generations: Marilyn & Johnny’s Story of Friendship at St. Joseph’s Health Care London (St. Joseph’s)

Despite being about seven decades apart in age, Marilyn Smith, 89 and Johnny Horton, 21 have formed a friendship through volunteering at Parkwood Institute Main Building (Parkwood Institute) General Store. Johnny participated in Project SEARCH, a program designed to help young adults with...

Derek Snake and the sweat lodge at Southwest

Indigenous Sweat Lodge built at Southwest Centre for Forensic Mental Health

Inside a dome-shaped wooden structure, a sacred ceremony unfolds. With guidance from Elders, Knowledge Carriers and a need from the community, sweat lodge ceremonies offer physical, emotional and spiritual healing. Within Indigenous culture stones are referred to as grandfathers and grandmothers....

Parkwood Consortium Site Implementation Team: Anna Kras-Dupuis, Charlie Giurleo, Kristen Johnson, Neal McKinnon, Kristin Wanless, Nadia Andretta-Whelan, Nicole Elliott, Paulo Da Rosa, Dalton Wolfe, Saagar Walia, Stephanie Cornell and Lindsey Guilbault.

Celebrating Professional Excellence

St. Joseph’s Excellence in Professional Practice Awards honour nursing and allied health professionals who embody the organization’s Mission, Vision and Values through exceptional leadership and patient care. Nominated by their peers and leaders, this year’s recipients were celebrated at a ceremony...

St. Joseph’s leads innovative hernia repair using da Vinci Xi surgical robot

His fingertips flit across the controls with a careful, deliberate touch while his right foot lightly taps two pedals on the floor. Like an organist at his console, each movement is so practiced as to seem effortless. Surgeon Dr. Ahmad Elnahas agrees there are parallels between musicianship and...

Celebrating science and spirit

The 2025 Tribute Dinner was a vibrant celebration of curiosity, community spirit and the power of pushing boundaries. Nearly 1,000 guests gathered at RBC Place London on October 9 to hear from Timothy Caulfield, a health law expert, Canadian bestselling author and science communicator. The evening...

The right option at the right time

Fresh off a beach day in Grand Bend in summer of 2015, Lea Seguin suddenly felt pain in one of her breasts. Chalking it up to sand irritation from her day by the water, and with the pain going away with her menstrual cycle, Lea didn’t give it too much thought – until it returned the next month. When...