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'Cancer throws you in the deep end'
The other day I saw the image above on social media and clicked on I draw childhood cancer, a Facebook page run by Angus Olsen. Angus, who lives in Australia, is trained in animation and began drawing
'Learn from each other's heart' is cartoonist's message
My Beijing: Four Stories of Everyday Wonder is a magical watercolour children's book by Chinese master cartoonist Nie Jun.
Earning child, parent trust is job number 1 for surgeon
Dr. Unni Narayanan (above left) is a pediatric orthopedic surgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children who sees patients at Holland Bloorview while they do their rehab here. Dr. Narayanan went to Madras
Lived experience 'helps me go to the darker places with families'
Holland Bloorview social worker Val Lusted has spent almost 20 years working with youth with brain injuries caused by illness or trauma, and those hospitalized for rehab after bone surgeries or spinal
Meet Karmzah, a heroine with cerebral palsy and super powers
Farida Bedwei is a Ghanaian software engineer who's launching a new comic book with a super hero who has a disability. Farida, who has cerebral palsy, loved comics as a child, but never saw any
Her son's stroke puts a Nunavut doctor on the other side of care
Family doctor Madeleine Cole works at a 25-bed hospital in Iqaluit doing emergency medicine and delivering babies. She also flies in to remote Nunavut villages to run clinics for the largely Inuit
'My Beijing' is about the adventures of a girl and her grandfather
My Beijing: Four Stories of Everyday Wonder is a gorgeous watercolour children's book by Nie Jun that was released in September.
My daughter is not an animal at the zoo
By Christina HerbersWe saw pandas! We saw lemurs! We saw bears and zebras and hippos. We were just a family visiting the zoo. And then we...
Weight 'talks' leave autistic youth feeling blamed, shamed
Obesity in children is one of the most serious public health challenges according to the World Health Organization. Children with autism ...
How vulnerable brains find workarounds is this scientist's passion
Dr. Tomáš Paus is fascinated by brains—not individual brains, but the study of hundreds of thousands of them. As a neuroscientist, he studies how our genes, and our physical and social environments
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