Hospital For Sick Children

• Respiratory illness, dropped masks, worker shortage, factors in Ontario kids’ hospital waits

  Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children has warned patients this week to prepare for longer-than-normal wait times at its emergency room.

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  Oct 6
  
• ‘Uncharted territory’: Toronto family of child with rare disease raises $3M for therapy

  'This could change his life,' said Terry Pirovolakis of a gene therapy clinical trial to treat son Michael's ultra-rare condition, SPG50.

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  Aug 15
  
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• 7 probable cases of severe acute hepatitis in children reported at Toronto’s SickKids Hospital

  SickKids Hospital says there are currently seven probable cases of severe acute hepatitis being reported at the downtown Toronto hospital for children.

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  May 10
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• SickKids to receive 3 more pediatric cancer patients, their families from Ukraine

  SickKids said the first two pediatric cancer patients and their families, who arrived in Toronto on March 16, are "settling in and pleased to be in Canada."

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  Mar 22
• Ontario hospitals seeing ‘disturbing trend’ of infant COVID-19 admissions

  A group of Ontario hospitals is urging pregnant people to get vaccinated against COVID-19, citing a recent trend of infant hospitalizations due to the disease.

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  Jan 5
• SickKids: Peterborough boy’s life saved, family shares their story to inspire giving to hospital foundation

  "They came in the room and said we are on the phone with SickKids, we need to go, there is something wrong with his heart," said Desmond's mom, Heather Chaput.

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  Dec 9, 2021
• ‘Be a Light’: SickKids launches new campaign amid push to raise funds for new state-of-the-art facility

  "Every year we try to do something bold and breakthrough, to remain top of mind for people because we have a fight at SickKids that's never-ending."

  Health

  Oct 13, 2021
• More than 227K tickets issued by Toronto speed cameras in 1st year of enforcement

  City of Toronto officials noted one of the vehicles ticketed was captured by automated speed cameras 27 times over the period of a year.

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  Aug 24, 2021
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• SickKids, 2 other Ontario children’s hospitals implement mandatory COVID-19 vaccine for staff

  Joining SickKids is Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital in Toronto and Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa.

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  Aug 20, 2021
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• Most Ontario youth reported significant depression symptoms during pandemic, early data suggests

  The early data, which has not been peer reviewed, shows that more than half of 758 kids aged eight to 12 reported significant symptoms of depression from February to March.

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  Jul 8, 2021