Your QEII A reminder of the fragility of life A visit to the QEII Health Sciences Centre was not on Bishop Philip Poole’s itinerary during a recent stop in Halifax. But following his...
Your QEII Redefining use of antipsychotic medications The breadth and depth at which Alzheimer’s disease affects a person’s life is staggering. Beyond memory loss, approximately 50 per cent of patients...
Your QEII Welcome to Clothes City: Service provides essential clothing items to those in need It’s a small space that has a huge impact on the lives of patients, staff, and the community. Clothes City is a free clothing service tucked onto the...
Your QEII Hand of fibreglass, heart of gold Don Locke remembers the life-changing moment. It was 1971 and he was four years old, living in his home province of Newfoundland. During an informal...
Your QEII Explaining Canada’s new medically assisted dying law Imagine that you have a serious illness, disease or disability which is at a stage where it cannot be reversed, where you are suffering unbearably...
Your QEII A word from the QEII Foundation Welcome to our eleventh issue of QEII Times. Thanks to our partners at The Chronicle Herald and our advertisers, QEII Times continues to highlight...
Your QEII A love of medicine: Meet the ‘reverse snowbird’ who just wanted to help Every year, thousands of Canadians head south of the border in search of warmer temperatures during the winter months. But some, like Honor Nivin,...
Your QEII Celebrating 20 years of changing lives This year the QEII Health Sciences Centre celebrates 20 years of changing and saving lives. These past two decades haven’t been marked by calendar...
Your QEII Treating the Addiction Carol Dobson Instead of a 17-day trip to Nashville last October, Truro’s Gary Cox found himself in not one, but two hospitals. En route to...