If you have been to our hospital recently, as a patient or visitor, you probably noticed that something is different, and you’re right. After more than two years of preparations, we have started using a digital system, Dovetale, instead of...

A St. Joe's researcher is part of a team that has found a genetic signature for delay discounting — the tendency to undervalue future rewards — that overlaps with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), obesity and smoking. Dr. James...

Dr. Jeremy Hirota has been awarded a New Investigator Research Grant sponsored by the SickKids Foundation and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to help create a new precision medicine tool for cystic fibrosis patients. “Unfortunately,...

In the early morning hours of December 2nd, 2017 St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton (SJHH) will join ranks with the top 7% of Ontario healthcare providers who have adopted cutting-edge systems for digitizing health information. The software designed by EPIC...

Children at one year old who have eczema or AD and are sensitized to an allergen are seven times more likely than other infants to develop asthma, and significantly more likely to have a food allergy by age three. This new finding from the Canadian CHILD...

Debbie Bang, on the path behind Womankind Addiction Service on Nov. 17, 2017.   The search for a new director of quality improvement at Addictions and Mental Health Ontario ended with a Bang — St. Joe's Debbie Bang, that is. Over the next 17...