Tag: London Health Sciences Centre
After hospital gunfire, AI-powered weapon detectors coming soon to London ERs
Artificial intelligence-powered weapons detectors are coming soon to London emergency rooms, an internal email to hospital staff says.
$7.2M boost for London-based Alzheimer’s, cancer studies
London researchers studying how molecular imaging can improve cancer care and the detection of Alzheimer’s have received a major boost
Potential measles exposure identified at two London-area ERs
London public health officials are warning of several potential measles exposures at area hospitals in the last two weeks.
LHSC names new vice-president for Children’s Hospital in London
Shannon Maier’s arrival brings to 10 the executive roster at the London Health Sciences Centre, now overseen by a provincial supervisor.
LHSC opens 24 additional beds to handle flu season surge
London Health Sciences Centre has opened extra beds during the “peak” of respiratory virus season but has avoided cancelling surgeries
LHSC’s innovative off-site surgical centre to triple in size
The off-site surgical centre across the street from Victoria Hospital is being expanded to triple its capacity, the province says. The Nazem Kadri surgical centre, named in honour of the NHL star and London native, will be renovated and expanded to add four operating rooms, bringing the total to six. The centre offers daytime, non-urgent […]
Accused London hospital shooter also charged in Toronto-area home invasion, bank heist
The man charged in a shooting outside a London hospital emergency room is also facing charges from an armed home invasion and a gun-point bank robbery in the Toronto region in the weeks following the gunfire here. London police announced late Wednesday Doneil Josiah Levy-Port, 18, of Brampton, is charged with attempted murder and other […]
18-year-old faces six charges in shooting at London hospital
An 18-year-old faces six charges, including attempted murder, in a brazen shooting outside the emergency department at Victoria Hospital. Doneil Josiah Levy-Porter, 18, of Brampton is charged in the shooting in which shots struck the hospital and a pickup track crashed into a concrete pillar outside the emergency room on Dec. 14, London police said […]
Local man first to get new publicly funded prostate cancer drug
A Dundalk-area man is the first person in Canada to receive a new, publicly funded treatment that better targets prostate cancer cells and is shown to prolong life. After discovering a growth which made it difficult using the toilet in November 2023, doctors sent Fred Harrison for conventional radiation in Kitchener, then eight months of […]