London Health Sciences Centre
A new study from Lawson Health Research Institute looking at whether digital care and communication can help improve patient outcomes after surgery has received a Compassion and AI Grant from AMS Healthcare. The study aims to leverage technology to monitor patients who have been discharged from...
Study finds atrial fibrillation detected after stroke seems more benign than pre-stroke irregular heartbeats
In a new preclinical study published in the journal Gastroenterology, researchers at Lawson Health Research Institute and Western University have found that a specific type of inflammation may be associated with an increased risk of colorectal cancer.
Dr. Zhang graduated from the Department of Biology, Zhongshan University in China. He received his PhD from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden in 1997. He finished his postdoctoral fellowship training in the Department of Pathology, University of Toronto and became a faculty member at Western...
A team at Lawson Health Research Institute are testing a new form of artificial intelligence (AI), paired with portable ultrasound machines, to image and identify lung concerns in real time, right at the beside of critically ill patients.
Researchers at Lawson Health Research Institute and Western University had a leading role in a new global study that will change the way surgeons repair leaky valves in the heart. It’s one of the most common heart valve conditions, afftecting around two per cent of the population, where many...
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Dr. Doug Fraser, Pediatric Critical Care Physician at London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) and Scientist at Lawson Health Research Institute, quickly sprang into action to begin researching the SARS-CoV-2 virus. As patients started being admitted to LHSC due to COVID...
Finding out he had chronic kidney disease came as a surprise to 80-year-old Robert Wahby. “I didn’t feel or have any symptoms so it was kind of a shock, especially when it got to the point that I needed dialysis.” Wahby, who is a retired family doctors, had been undergoing dialysis at London Health...
It was a diagnosis that came as a shock for 28-year-old Mitch Kuska who found out he had Multiple Sclerosis (MS) at the age of 26. “I went from being a young 26-year-old doing regular things, to having to learn about this disease and everything that goes along with it and how it will affect my life...
