Topic: Hospital for Sick Children

(Medical Xpress) -- In a new review article, researchers at the University of Toronto, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and Children's...

Luke's Legacy lives on

Luke Holmes would have turned six this February. Instead he died of congenital heart disease at 22 months. To celebrate his life, Sweethearts for...

What counts in the early years

Like many parents, Tracy Solomon spends quite a bit of time counting with her son Xavier.. . . . “First, we learned to recognize numbers: speed ...

Cochlear implant problems rare in children: study

(Reuters) - Problems with cochlear implants for deaf children are rare, with only some three percent of children who got the implants at one hospital needing new ones because of technical problems, Canadian researchers said.Their report, in the Archives of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck ...
Unborn babies diagnosed with severe heart problems who are put on the heart transplant list before birth get new hearts more quickly than babies...
By Jessica Hume and Jane Switzer. . The Ontario Provincial Police is trying to piece together what happened inside a white Kia SUV that caused a...
View Larger Map . A stretch of Highway 410 southbound lanes were closed after a woman and child fell from a moving vehicle and were hit by a car...

Kids from drug-making homes mostly healthy: study

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Most children raised in homes where illegal drugs are produced appear to be in good health, according to a small Canadian study.Still, a third of the 75 kids tested positive for at least one drug, researchers report ...
A five-year-old girl died in hospital Friday afternoon after being struck by a car while she and her mother were crossing the street.. . The...
By Sharon Kirkey. . They can't bend over to tie their own shoes. They wake at night gasping for breath because of the fatty folds pressing on their...