For children facing serious medical conditions, the hospital can be a confusing and scary place. Unfamiliar people, weird machines, and strange sounds can be startling and uncomfortable. Which is why ...

In a sunlit room at CancerCare Manitoba, a six-year-old plays with Lizzy the puppet. She inserts a needle into Lizzy's velour-covered chemotherapy port, which looks a lot like the one on her own chest ...

As a hypochondriac with a borderline-superstitious fear that any choice I make will set off a series of Rube Goldberg-like events that may lead to long-term hospitalization, I was skeptical when I ...