Tag: St. Joseph’s Health Care
How London hospitals are handling a global shortage of helium amid Iran unrest
Some people may recognize helium as a gas used in balloons on celebratory occasions or perhaps to induce a high-pitched voice when it’s inhaled. But the colourless, odourless gas plays an important function in health care – used as a coolant in MRI machines, which diagnose diseases, plan treatments and monitor injuries – and the […]
Controversial dog breeder Ridglan set to release 1,500 dogs
A controversial U.S. dog breeder at the centre of a police showdown with activists attempting to free the animals last month is releasing 1,500 dogs to animal welfare organizations. Ridglan Farms, a massive Wisconsin-based dog breeding operation featured in a recent report by the Investigative Journalism Bureau (IJB), has produced thousands of beagles for scientific […]
St. Joseph’s hospital publishes reviews after uproar over research on dogs
The reviews were conducted after an article was published by The London Free Press and other Postmedia newspapers last summer
Protesters gather at St. Joseph’s hospital with clear question: Where are the dogs?
A group of protesters assembled outside St. Joseph’s Health Care near downtown London on Sunday demanding more details about the fate of dogs formerly used in cardiac research at the hospital. About 50 people, some joined by their own dogs, gathered outside St. Joe’s at the corner or Richmond and Grosvenor streets Sunday afternoon. Many […]
Head of lab that used dogs in tests no longer at St. Joseph’s
The head of a research lab that induced heart attacks in dogs as part of human heart research is no longer with St. Joseph’s Hospital