Israeli team trains Toronto’s Sick Kids hospital on disaster preparedness
Sick Kids hospital in Toronto hosted a team from Rambam Hospital in Haifa on Nov. 8 and 9, to share knowledge about how to prepare for disasters.
Bar mitzvah boy donates musical instruments to hospital
For his bar mitzvah, Daniel Rubinoff donated $1,000 worth of musical instruments to Toronto’s Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital.
Medical aid in dying is ‘madness,’ JGH doctor says
Jewish General Hospital physician Michael Bouhadana took a difinitive position on assisted dying when he spoke Sept. 19 at a national conference on aging
Mount Sinai Hospital event to benefit breast cancer research
Breast cancer will affect one in nine Canadian women during their lifetimes. According to statistics from the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, an estimated 25,000 women in Canada will be diagnosed with breast cancer and 5,000 women will die from it in 2016. The Power of Pink luncheon in support of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation […]
Rabbi Avraham Steinberg: Israel’s end-of-life expert
Rabbi Avraham Steinberg is a senior pediatric neurologist at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem and director of the hospital’s medical ethics unit. He is also an associate clinical professor of medical ethics at Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School. In the early 2000s, Rabbi Steinberg headed the committee that drafted Israel’s Dying Patient Law, which […]
Art for Healing brings pleasure to Mount Sinai
Art for Healing is a foundation that not only places donated art in health institutions, but curates the pieces during a selection process
Hospital oncology clinic named for Moncton doctor
Sheldon Rubin treated thousands of patients for cancer and blood disorders throughout his career, his knowledge and experience sought out by fellow health care professionals
First all-Jewish Winnipeg medical group remembered
The Mall Medical Group in Winnipeg, founded in 1947, was the first all-Jewish medical group in Manitoba
Montreal synagogue panel addresses physician-assisted dying
“Just as we support prenatal care, we have to be a society that nurtures the end of life. As a society, we must stop fearing death,” says Kappy Flanders
Performers use music to help people recuperate from long-term illness
Music Can Heal provides live music to hospitals, hospices and private homes to help patients recuperate
