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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.

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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.

A woman wearing a SickKids Child Life tshirt and lanyard sites on a bench next to a young girl with an IV

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.

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