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Beyond Cigarettes: How Smoking Affects Your Health
Elise Copps
We often hear about the risks of smoking cigarettes, but many other types of smoking also put your body at risk. As vaping, cannabis, cigars, and hookah become more popular, we're talking about the risks of smoking, beyond cigarettes.
A silver lining for sibling burn patients
Ellie Stutsman
After putting out a growing grease fire in their home, siblings Doug and Alyssa were severely burned and had to be transferred from their local hospital to the Hamilton General Hospital's Burn Trauma Unit.
New technology detects abnormal heart rhythms
We're utilizing a remote heart monitor before and after patients have a TAVI, a minimally invasive heart procedure, to determine if a pacemaker is required. This remote heart monitor is sent home with the patients and alerts doctors of arrhythmia or other heart abnormalities.
Introducing…our Chief Medical Information Officer
James Scarfone
To help with implementation of IT programs and services, Dr. Rob Lloyd engages and educates clinicians on a regular basis.
The evolving relationship between diet and health
The evidence that informed global dietary guidelines came from early Western-led nutrition studies that only focused on Western countries. Since then, we've learned much more about nutrition around the world. Our Population Health Research Institute is looking at nutrition from a global lens which is now challenging common nutritional wisdom.
Cancer and heart disease: An unexpected discovery
Our researchers have discovered that patients with heart disease who develop major internal bleeding are much more likely to be diagnosed with cancer…
Pass the salt: Average sodium intake proven safe, after all
When it comes to salt consumption – an ever-controversial topic in the world of nutrition and health – the old adage "everything in moderation" has proven to be true.
Better care with our whole heart
If you need heart surgery, Hamilton General Hospital is where you want to be. Just ask Jenny and Gerald Kennedy. The mother-son pair knows all to well that HGH…
Sunglasses help brain injury patients
Light sensitivity is a common outcome from brain injuries but staff came up with a way to mitigate…
Leading thrombosis care
Hamilton Health Sciences and McMaster University are the epicenter of thrombosis research in Canada and the world. Through their ground breaking discoveries, our experts have set the global standards for the prevention and treatment of thrombosis, a common threat that causes one in six deaths worldwide.
Preventing disease, everywhere
One third of all global deaths are caused by heart attacks and strokes, and most of them in lower income countries. We're finding solutions to prevent these deadly diseases – solutions that are available to people in every corner of the globe.
Making surgery safer
The last one hundred years have seen life-saving advancements in surgery. Still, it's not without its risks. Our researchers are leading a new wave of exploration aimed at making surgery safer for people around the globe.
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