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March 30, 2015
Task Force Takes on Canada’s Urgent Child Obesity Challenge with New Guidelines
Today the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care issued its latest guidelines on the prevention and management of childhood obesity. With 1 in 3 children classified as either overweight or obese in Canada the prevalence of childhood obesity has more than doubled in the last 40 years.

March 23, 2015
SickKids – UHN collaboration results in life-saving transplant
At the beginning of March, three-year-old Phuoc Wagner returned home to her twin sister Binh and seven other siblings, after a successful living donor liver transplant – the liver donated by her father Michael Wagner of Kingston, Ontario.
March 20, 2015
Child Life Specialists make a difference for kids of all ages at SickKids
In honour of Child Life week, SickKids, is celebrating the important contribution Child Life staff make to patients of all ages at the hospital.

March 5, 2015
SickKids surgeons first to use nerve grafts from patient’s own leg to restore sensation in eye
Experts at SickKids have pioneered a novel surgery that restores lost feeling in the eye by transplanting a nerve graft from the patient’s own leg into their eye.

February 11, 2015
Twin daughter receives life-saving transplant from dad: both recovering
On Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015, the transplant teams at SickKids and Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network collaborated on a successful father-daughter liver transplant.