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It looks like London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) supervisor David Musyj will be sticking around. Musyj was seconded to London from Windsor Regional Hospital, where he was chief executive, as a temporary measure in May 2024. When he was appointed by the province as LHSC’s supervisor four months later, a spokeperson for the health minister said […]
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A London researcher who focuses on poverty and homelessness and a celebrated harmonica player and composer from Sarnia are among 83 people appointed Monday to the Order of Canada. Gov. Gen. Mary Simon announced the appointments of Cheryl Forchuk and Mike Stevens for their contributions to the nation. “Forchuk is an esteemed nurse scientist at […]
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A London surgeon has resigned from practising medicine in Ontario and ordered to pay $6,000 in legal costs to the regulator after treating three patients who were family members or close friends.   The Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal, the disciplinary arm of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, found Robert Richards […]
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London researchers are launching a clinical trial to see if pills containing beneficial microbes from poop can help save the lives of pancreatic cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. Scientists at Lawson Research Institute, the research institute at St. Joseph’s Health Care London, and London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute (LHSCRI), are launching a Phase 1 clinical […]
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St. Joseph’s Health Care London is piloting a new minimally invasive treatment that suctions kidney stones from the body, the first hospital in North America to use the new technology.   The device, which has been used in China but never before in North America, may help stop kidney stones from recurring and may be […]