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 […]
Provincial police urged drivers in the London region to stay off the roads as blowing snow created white-out conditions while the largest local hospital prepared for a crush of injured patients Saturday afternoon. OPP in Middlesex, Huron and Perth counties asked drivers to avoid unnecessary travel with flurries and gusting winds sending snow flying across […]
More than 100 people braved blowing snow and frigid temperatures Saturday morning for the chance to sign up for a family doctor in London, a city with 71,000 people who don’t have one. As of 9:05 a.m., five minutes after doors opened to Grow Family Health at 320 Adelaide St. S., dozens of people were […]
Public health officials at the epicentre of Ontario's measles outbreak near London have flagged four new exposure sites.
Christine Bishop and Terry Albert’s relationship was described as “tumultuous.” The couple didn’t share any children, but both were addicted to drugs, including fentanyl, the powerful, highly addictive synthetic opioid that is up to 100 times more powerful than morphine and the main drug implicated in the ongoing opioid drug crisis. Both of them were […]
A vehicle crashed into a business in Exeter on Thursday afternoon, causing “extensive damage,” police said.
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Ripley Pharmacy is striving to help area residents access medical attention locally with the addition of a nurse practitioner to its walk-in clinic. “Having a nurse practitioner provides a convenient and time-saving alternative, particularly for immunocompromised patients and infants who would otherwise risk exposure to infections in a hospital setting. This also helps reduce strain […]
St. Thomas will soon be home to Canada's largest factory but is thinking beyond industry to meet its "Brighter Future" vision for itself.
It's kind of a nice problem to have, one civic veteran says, but a balancing act is needed for the once-rural area that's now booming.
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 […]
The death of an infant in a community near Sarnia is being investigated by the OPP. Lambton EMS and other emergency services responded to a report of an unresponsive infant at a home on St. Clair Street in Point Edward on Saturday at about 1:25 a.m., Lambton OPP said Monday. Point Edward is a village […]
