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Captured Caring: Moments of inspiration for the week of October 11
Every day our people at Sinai Health are doing extraordinary things. Captured Caring is a series featuring submissions from our people to provide you with inspiration and encouragement as we care for patients and each other. Have your own story or photo to...
Mount Sinai Hospital’s outpatient palliative care program enhances quality of life for patients with life-limiting illnesses
In 2019, Raisy Mandel and her family found out that her mother Sheila’s breast cancer had returned. It was a shock that almost thirty years after her initial diagnosis, she now had an incurable form of the disease. At 85, Sheila was also in the early stages of...
Sinai Health’s Psychiatrist-in-Chief offers ways to maintain resilience
Though times remain uncertain with the pandemic it’s important to remember that we are all still, even at 18 months in -- discovering what resiliency means to us individually.“Resilience is the capacity for adaptation,” says Dr. Lesley Wiesenfeld,...
“I wasn’t ready to give up” – How teams of experts at Sinai Health, UHN and SickKids came together to save a woman and her baby
Candice Cruise was 21 weeks pregnant when, driving home one day with her husband, Collin, she noticed in the mirror of the car’s sun visor that her lips had turned blue. She had been feeling a bit out of breath on recent days, but had dismissed it as something common...
“Breastfeeding is a journey” – Mount Sinai parents share their story of perseverance in breastfeeding
When it comes to breastfeeding, no parents’ experience resembles another. Some are able to breastfeed easily right after birth, while some experience hurdles from the start.“I knew it was going to be difficult, so I knew I had to have the supports in place...
World-first: Experts at UHN, Sinai Health and SickKids develop plan to save critically ill mother and her baby
TORONTO (October 3, 2021) – Medical experts from University Health Network (UHN), Sinai Health’s Mount Sinai Hospital and The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) collaborated to support a pregnant patient with pulmonary hypertension, through both a successful...
LTRI scientist Daniel Durocher celebrated as pioneer in precision oncology medicine
When thinking of the latest cutting-edge strategy for killing cancer cells, scientist Daniel Durocher pictures a chair.Knock out one leg of the chair and it remains standing. Knock two out, and the chair comes crashing down to the floor. Durocher sees cancer cells as...