A small percentage of people who faint suffer from serious medical conditions that are difficult to catch, which is why a new monitoring system is saving lives.

Elizabeth Fraser jokes that she had one of the world’s most-planned pregnancies. Six months before she became pregnant, the midwife sat down with experts at The Ottawa Hospital to figure out how to reduce her risk of potentially dangerous blood clots.

Dr. Bernard Thébaud and his team are hoping to harness stem cells from umbilical cords to treat chronic lung diseases in extremely premature babies like Olivia Eberts.

Bringing stem cell research to patients – that’s the common goal that has united research specialists from a wide range of disciplines under The Ottawa Hospital’s Sprott Centre for Stem Cell Research, now celebrating its 10th anniversary.

Harnessing the body’s immune system to fight cancer is a new and complex field, but through his connections with Let’s Talk Science, PhD student Curtis McCloskey has adapted his research into an activity that teenagers can digest and understand.

Ottawa resident Sarah Rogers would have been taking blood thinners for life, if not for a rule that showed she was at low risk of having a second blood clot.