Doctor of the University Health Network working at Western Hospital have transplanted a forearm and hand in a procedure that lasted about 14 hours. The transplant recipient is a 49-year-old woman who had lost her arm below the elbow in an accident years some The surgery was led by Dr. Steven McCabe, director of the Toronto Western Hospital’s hand and upper extremity transplant program. He was part of a surgical team in Louisville, Ky., that performed the world’s first successful hand transplant in 1999. There have been more than 110 hand transplants worldwide but this is the first in Canada.
TWO TRACKS have reopened on the Lakeshore West GO Transit line and regular service is resuming after a person was struck near the Port Credit station Tuesday afternoon. GO Transit says the person, who was struck on the westbound line, has died. Peel Paramedics could not confirm the age or gender of the victim.
MAYOR TORY AND PRIME MINISTER TRUDEAU will meet privately for 45 minutes before the two hold a news conference at City Hall Wednesday. .Hope is higH there will an announcement about funding for the Smart Track project. Before his meeting at City Hall, Trudeau will be at the MaRS Discovery District where the Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine (CCRM) says “a major announcement with a global impact” will be made.
