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Obesity prevention in the early years Who? Kristi B. Adamo, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute What's the Issue? It is known that obesity tracks very closely from childhood to adolescence to adulthood meaning that if you have trouble maintaining a healthy…

Exposure to pesticides and behavioral problems Who? Maryse Bouchard, Associate Professor, Université de Montréal (Dept. Environmental and Occupational Health) What's the Issue? Everybody is exposed to environmental contaminants, but some of the most highly vulnerable persons are…

Action Schools! BC: A 'Whole School' Approach to Getting Kids Active Originally a 10-school CIHR pilot project, it now operates in every BC school district Ten years ago, a day in the life of an elementary school student in British Columbia meant mostly sitting in a classroom and…

Kangaroo Care: A Different Way of Nurturing Preterm Babies Colombian-Canadian collaboration changing the world's thinking about preterm care It began more than three decades ago in Bogotá, Colombia. In the late 1970s, an incubator shortage at a hospital in the city had led to…

EPIQ Results: Reconfiguring Neonatal Care Saves More Preterm Babies from Disability and Death Model of care now used internationally The 1990s was not a good decade for preterm babies in Canadian hospitals, according to Dr. Shoo K. Lee, who was then working at the Children’s &…

Telephone-Based Mental Health Care Gets Help Quickly to Troubled Kids and Families Home-centred program proves more effective than usual care Nine-year-old Calvin is having difficulty sitting still during class, affecting his ability to focus. Gathered together on the carpet for…

Obstetrics Study Leads to Changes in Practice and Guidelines Researcher studies a common procedure, finds it is not effective Sometimes, advances in health care come not from newly developed treatments or technologies, but from finding out that a common procedure isn't as…

Fueling minds with new knowledge and small bodies with nutritious breast milk Dr. Catherine Pound, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario and University of Ottawa Dr. Catherine Pound is a pediatrician, researcher and medical educator at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario…

Giving our tiniest patients a boost Dr. Deborah O'Connor and Dr. Sharon Unger A team of Toronto researchers is focused on improving health outcomes for the most vulnerable of patients – preterm infants. Dr. Deborah O'Connor and Dr. Sharon Unger are leaders in advancing the care…

Taking aim at gun-related injuries among young Canadians Dr. Astrid Guttman, Dr. Natasha Saunders, Dr. Alison Macpherson Researchers provide first picture of firearm injuries among children and youth in Ontario A study recently published by a team of Toronto researchers in the…