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Twice the robots, twice the care.

In the operating rooms at KHSC, surgery is starting to look more like science fiction. From behind the console of the new Da Vinci Xi robotic surgery system, surgeons can perform minimally invasive procedures with precision, ease and accuracy, doubling the capacity of a program already transforming hundreds of lives across Southeastern Ontario each year.

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Dr. Vanner at the microscope

August 20, 2019

New KHSC research will test novel pain-relieving drugs for bowel disease

One of the greatest unmet needs of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is abdominal pain. Opioid drugs are the most effective treatment, but they have serious side effects. However, new opioid drugs now in development offer longer-lasting...

VEP

August 19, 2019

Helping Ontarians breathe easier for 25 years

A lot has changed since Ontario’s Ventilator Equipment Pool (VEP) first opened its doors 25 years ago: if you wanted to use the internet you had to dial-up using a phone line, which would have made the real-time online interactive education sessions...

COPD

August 14, 2019

Navigator helps people manage lung disease

A key success factor in helping people manage disease is time: taking the time to understand patients’ unique symptoms, explaining what activities to avoid, and providing plenty of opportunities for questions to be answered. Time is what Kingston...

Ruaa Al-Qazazi and Kali de Repentigny are students in Canada’s first graduate program in translational medicine at Queen’s University.

Translational medicine: training student researchers to put patients first

Ruaa Al-Qazazi and Kali de Repentigny are first-year Master’s students enrolled in the graduate program of the Translational Institute of Medicine (TIME), in Queen’s Department of Medicine. This total-immersion experience combines working in labs...

KHSC gynecologists

Leadership inspires greatness

Leadership is demonstrated every day in every way throughout Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC). Whether someone is actively listening to feedback, creatively solving problems or enthusiastically embracing change in the workplace, examples of...

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All eyes on new digital technology in Ophthalmology program

It’s not often that new technology checks off the big priorities at Kingston Health Sciences Centre all at once but the launch of an advanced digital slit lamp in Ophthalmology is doing exactly that. In an ocular exam, a slit lamp is vital equipment...

kids at iCan Bike camp

Ticket to ride: Bike camp boosts quality of life for children with special needs

Nothing says summer like a bike ride in the sunshine, and this week more than 30 children with special needs experienced the joy of riding a two-wheel bike for the first time thanks to a life-changing recreational camp at the Constantine Arena at CFB...

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“We’re better together."

Angela Morin was deeply bothered when she watched a dear friend sit for three long hours, in terrible pain, in a hospital waiting room nine years ago. “I thought ‘how can this be happening,’” she recalls. “Everything was revolving around the hospital...

Dr. Waddington

KHSC gynecologist joins new national advisory committee

On May 16, Dr. Ashley Waddington, a gynecologist at Kingston Health Sciences Centre who specializes in contraception and transgender health care, joined the eight other committee members and the chair of Health Canada’s new Scientific Advisory...