Have you ever wondered if eating a lot of carrots can give you super-human eye sight? Our experts answer this question from Sarah:
“Does eating carrots actually help your eye sight?” ~ Sarah, 15, Tecumseh, ON
Click here to see the answer from Dr. Kamiar Mireskandri, a staff ophthalmologist and project investigator with the Ophthalmology department at SickKids. Dr. Mireskandri is also an assistant professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences at the University of Toronto.
The scientists at SickKids are experts in most areas of health and life science. They spend their days asking tough questions and searching out the answers. Now it is your turn to ask them the tough questions.
Have you ever had a burning question about your body or about your health and didn’t know how to find the answer? This might just be the opportunity to get to the bottom of it!
You have the chance to submit your question and it will be answered by a scientist who specializes in that area. The best questions and answers will be featured on the Research Institute website: http://www.sickkids.ca/research.
Check the website often to see if your question gets posted. You can learn about what others want to know and if you read enough answers, you may even become a health expert yourself!
When their son’s bowel condition was successfully treated at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) some 20 years, ago Lori and Wayne Carr felt as though they had won the lottery. That feeling was renewed yesterday at SickKids when they received a cheque for one million dollars as the latest grand prize winners of the SickKids Lottery.
Born with a mild case of spina bifida relating to a bowel condition, the Carr’s first born son, Austin, was referred to SickKids at age four where he spent the next year getting a diagnosis and receiving treatment. Today, he is a healthy 22 year old attending school in Winnipeg.
The Carrs started supporting the SickKids Lottery a few years ago as a way to give back to the hospital that had given them so much.
“We have always had a strong emotional connection with SickKids and we wanted to show our thanks,” Lori Carr said . “SickKids was such an incredible support to us during our son’s treatment and we’ll never forget the kindness and care we got from everyone we encountered there. We were already so grateful to have our lives changed once by SickKids. We never thought our lives would be changed so dramatically a second time by the same hospital.”
The Carrs travelled from their family home in Chatham earlier this week to pick up their cheque at SickKids.
Net proceeds generated by the lottery will be used to further the mission of SickKids Foundation and help support The Hospital for Sick Children. To learn more about the lottery, visit the SickKids Lottery website.
*see lottery rules and regulations for details visit: www.sickkidslottery.ca Lottery licence 2797.
The Hospital for Sick Children is the only centre in Ontario that is able to provide lifesaving cardiac care for newborns with the most severe heart defects. In fact, SickKids performs more than 85 per cent of paediatric cardiovascular surgery in Ontario.
Here is a question for our specialists from Drew about heart defects:
“Why are babies born with defective hearts?” ~ Drew – age 9, Palmerston, ON.
Click here to see the answer from Dr. Seema Mital, a staff cardiologist in Cardiology and an associate scientist in the Genetics & Genome Biology program.
The scientists at SickKids are experts in most areas of health and life science. They spend their days asking tough questions and searching out the answers. Now it is your turn to ask them the tough questions.
Have you ever had a burning question about your body or about your health and didn’t know how to find the answer? This might just be the opportunity to get to the bottom of it!
You have the chance to submit your question and it will be answered by a scientist who specializes in that area. The best questions and answers will be featured on the Research Institute website: http://www.sickkids.ca/research.
Check the website often to see if your question gets posted. You can learn about what others want to know and if you read enough answers, you may even become a health expert yourself!