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By using images of the brain to look at how its outer surface is folded on itself, researchers can predict which high-risk patients will develop psychosis with more than 80 per cent accuracy. Before now, there has been no way to examine young people before they become ill to reliably identify who...

Dr. Donna Goldhawk, an imaging scientist at Lawson Health Research Institute (Lawson), is providing a unique and valuable learning experience to senior high school students. Since 2009, she has accepted students to train in her hospital-based research laboratory at St. Joseph’s Health Care London in...

Lawson Link magazine showcases the quality and impact of Lawson research, the breadth of areas where we are making a difference in patient care, and the contributions we have made to London’s knowledge economy. Diabetes, imaging and cancer are only a few of the research areas featured in this new...

Exchange: A London Health Research Day Forum on Diversity and Inclusivity will feature presentations from local and national researchers to spark a discussion on diversity, including gender, and how we can work together to identify and implement solutions. Date: Wednesday, May 9, 2018 Time: 6:00 - 9...

Register today for London Health Research Day (LHRD) and experience the largest research-focused activity in Southwestern Ontario. With hundreds of presentations from top learners, LHRD is your opportunity to learn about health research being conducted in the city of London. Dr. Janet Smylie, an...

A team of researchers have developed an open-source, clinically validated template for a 3D printed stethoscope for use in areas of the world with limited access to medical supplies – places where a stethoscope could mean the difference between life and death. “As far as we know this is the first...

March 14 marks World Delirium Awareness Day. In a new study, researchers at Lawson Health Research Institute (Lawson) have developed a simple screening method for improving the detection of delirium. Delirium is defined as a severe confusional state that occurs due to an underlying physiological...

In a new study, researchers at Lawson Health Research Institute (Lawson), Western University and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) have found that specialized programs for early psychosis can substantially reduce patient mortality. Published in The American Journal of Psychiatry...

Personalized medicine is the analysis of a patient’s DNA to predict how they will respond to medications. Led by Dr. Richard Kim, scientist at Lawson Health Research Institute (Lawson) and clinical pharmacologist at London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC), researchers at Lawson have received $4.4...

A first of its kind laboratory test in Canada validated at London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) and made possible by research at Lawson Health Research Institute provides patients with non-small cell lung cancer a non-invasive option to be tested for a gene mutation and receive life-extending second...