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Guinness World Records previously crowned Spike, a 23-year-old chihuahua mix, as the oldest living dog, but Bobi, a 30-year-old, has dethroned him.

Isaac began experiencing seizures as a baby and was later diagnosed with a rare form of epilepsy. What was unique in Isaac’s case, says his mom, Melissa, is the seizures presented in many ways – tonic clonic convulsions, to absence seizures, to a “glitch” in the brain causing a spontaneous behaviour like a giggle. The…

Luca came into this world very unexpectedly, on Easter Monday, at 25 weeks – more than three months early, weighing only 2 lbs., 1 oz. After a few weeks in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the Foothills Hospital, he was transferred to the Alberta Children’s Hospital’s Edwards Family NICU after an ultrasound found…

The Alberta Children’s Hospital has been caring for Charlee since before she was born. And after defying the odds, she will continue to rely on it as her lifeline as she grows. When Kelsey was pregnant, she found out that Charlee had hypoplastic left heart syndrome – essentially, she would be born with half of…

The three ‘super cows’ are capable of producing 50 per cent more milk than the average Canadian Holstein dairy cow, the scientists say.

The Polish tourist faced an angry mob after descending the sacred Mayan pyramid of Kukulkan.

Mom and dad knew their baby boy would need specialized help, even before he was born. Prenatal ultrasounds identified an anomaly around the stomach, and within hours of mom’s emergency C-section at Foothills Medical Centre, baby Bradley was whisked to the Alberta Children’s Hospital. Bradley was born with an esophageal atresia (EA) and tracheoesophageal fistula…

Christine and Loyd never thought they would need the Alberta Children’s Hospital for their son Calvin. But now, it’s like their second home. Calvin was always a healthy baby, but when he was one year old, and just started attending daycare, he became sick with coughs and other cold symptoms more often. His mom Christine…

Yianni was at his grandparents’ house when he experienced a sudden and painful headache, something Yianni never experienced before. Mom came and picked up right away and brought him home where they monitored Yianni while he rested. When he grew more ill, his parents took him to the Alberta Children’s Hospital where a CT scan…

Shortly after Juliet was born in Winnipeg, her newborn screen found abnormal levels of an amino acid called phenylalanine. She was soon diagnosed with Phenylketonuria (PKU), a metabolic disorder in which the body cannot metabolize phenylalanine and too much of phenylalanine is harmful to the brain. It means she is missing the enzyme that processes…