The Thunder Bay 50/50 Draw provides funding for local and regional healthcare. It has helped fund something extra special: a new mammography alternative researched, developed, and manufactured right here in Thunder Bay. Proceeds from Thunder Bay 5050 ticket sales have and will go directly to improve Regional Breast Cancer Care such as the purchase of a Radialis unit, only the third one to be installed in the world after Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Jessica, who was 26 weeks pregnant when she was diagnosed with breast cancer (left), advocated for her baby. Thanks to research done by her oncologist, she gave birth, during chemo treatment, to a healthy baby boy, Lennox (right), who is 2 ½ years old today.
Our Hospital’s Board Chair, Gord Wickham, shares some key updates, successes and reflections from the most recent Board of Directors meeting on December 6th.
Trina Diner, Manager, Northwestern Ontario Regional Stroke Network (NWORSN), Neurology, Cardiac Diagnostics and Cardiac Rehabilitation, Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre (TBRHSC), is the winner of the 2023 RBC Innovation Hero of the Year award for the development of NWO Navigate Application: an app for navigating stroke care in Northwestern Ontario.
Rabail Siddiqui has over five years of experience in research, ranging from basic sciences, to clinical and translational research. She has worked for the Orthopaedic Research Program at TBRHRI for the last three years and has been covering the position of Research Development Coordinator since May 2021.
Diabetes is a serious chronic disease characterized by the presence of high blood sugar. This occurs because the body is unable to make enough of the hormone insulin (type 1), the body is not able to use its supply of insulin properly (type 2), or both. Having high blood sugars over a long period of time can lead to serious health complications including increased risk of cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, blindness, nerve damage, wounds, and amputations.
This week, we’re celebrating Medical Radiation Technologists (MRT) and Diagnostic Medical Sonographers (DMS) who play an integral role in patient care. Medical radiation technologists (MRT) and diagnostic medical sonographers (DMS) perform diagnostic imaging examinations and administer radiation therapy treatments. So, if you have ever had an x-ray, CT scan, MRI, nuclear medicine procedure, ultrasound or radiation therapy, you have been in contact with an MRT or DMS. They can be found in emergency departments, operating rooms, mobile breast screening vans as well as diagnostic imaging departments and clinics.
