2003/04 world class achievements and major medical breakthroughs from Ontario's Hospitals : World class achievements and major medical breakthroughs from Ontario's Hospitals

Surgery to correct transposition of the great arteries of the heart, the 1963 Hospital for Sick Children birth defect of “blue babies,” is pioneered by Dr. [...] One of the first to use the same laser for treating tumours in the urinary tract and treatment of prostate enlargement. [...] The discovery of the gene may have long-term implications for the treatment of conditions that cause destruction of the retina in humans. [...] Steve Scherer, of The 1998 Hospital for Sick Children Hospital for Sick Children (HSC) and the University of Toronto (U of T) identify a gene responsible for one of the most severe forms of epilepsy, known as Lafora disease (LD). [...] The Hospital for Sick Children installed the first clinical Magneto 2000 Hospital for Sick Children Encephalography (MEG) site in Canada and the first in the world to be installed at a paediatric institution.