London Free Press
The text messages found on Daniel Fawcett’s cell phone appeared to leave a breadcrumb trail to follow to his final moments. There were weeks of conversations found by the police between Fawcett and an associate who was a friend of Craig Allan, 50, the man on trial for Fawcett’s death. Those final messages directed Fawcett […]
London Free Press
The officer wrote in his notes that he was being dispatched to a sudden-death occurrence that was “a possible fentanyl overdose.” But OPP identification Const. Rob Laaper testified Tuesday the death was deemed to be suspicious in nature because of wounds on the deceased’s arms. “Cut to the bone. No blood,” he wrote in his […]
London Free Press
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 […]
London Free Press
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 […]
London Free Press
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 […]
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