Advanced Lab

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Sometimes conventional lab tests are not always enough to determine the true cause of your illness and health concerns. At Infinity Health Centre we offer specialized lab testing to get to the root of your illness and provide you with enhanced personal healthcare, specific to your body’s needs.

Food Sensitivity Test:

Determining and eliminating your food sensitivities is crucial for achieving optimal health, benefitting digestive concerns, such as IBS and IBD, but also skin conditions, thyroid disease, chronic fatigue, weight gain, migraines and more.

Comprehensive Stool Analysis:

Determining the presence and balance of microbes (bacteria, yeast & parasites) aids in the treatment of IBD, IBS, constipation and diarrhea providing relief for many conditions patients are told they have to endure.

Lifestyle Genetics Testing:

Understanding genomic determinants of important functional pathways involved in mood and personality traits, cardiovascular health, metabolic profile, body composition, and detoxification pathways.

Metabolic Snapshot:

Providing fundamental information about nutrient adequacy and deficiency, availability of neurotransmitter precursors, detoxification capacity, and common inherent disorders of amino acid metabolism.

Health Counseling

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Medical-Link is committed to providing specialized mental health counselling services and groups that empower LGBT people – youth, adults, couples, families and parents – to live healthier, happier lives. We provide a range of services – free of charge – to those who have trouble accessing quality care due to poverty, homophobia, racism and social isolation.

Our counselors have an in-depth understanding of the issues and life difficulties faced by LGBT people. Many of our counsellors identify as LGBT and all are LGBT positive.

If you’re dealing with issues such as coming out, homophobia, gender identity, relationship difficulties, transitioning, anxiety and depression, we can help.

Well Trained Staff

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At Medical-Link, we have more than 70 healthcare providers on our medical staff. These well-trained, dedicated professionals practice in the areas of: emergency medicine, family practice, general surgery, internal medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, ophthalmology, orthopedic surgery, otolaryngology, pediatrics, psychiatry, podiatry, radiology, thoracic surgery, urology and vascular surgery.

Our physicians have completed their medical school and residency training at a variety of highly respected institutions. A residency-training program begins after medical school and can last from three to seven years, depending on the specialty. It is required that all of our physicians become board certified, which means they have met the high standards of one of the medical specialty boards. To become certified, a physician must complete post-graduate training in a specialty and pass an examination administered by the certifying specialty board.

Kids Treatment

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The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), affiliated with Medical-Link, is North America’s most research-intensive hospital and the largest centre dedicated to improving children’s health in the country. As innovators in child health, SickKids improves the health of children by integrating care, research and teaching.

With a staff that includes professionals from all disciplines of health care and research, SickKids provides the best in complex and specialized care by creating scientific and clinical advancements, sharing knowledge and expertise and championing the development of an accessible, comprehensive and sustainable child health system.

Blood Pressure Checkup

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You don’t always have to go to your doctor’s office to have your blood pressure checked; you can monitor your own blood pressure at home. This is especially important if your doctor recommends that you monitor your blood pressure on a regular basis.

Tips for Checking Your Own Blood Pressure

There are certain factors that can cause blood pressure to temporarily rise. For example, blood pressure normally rises as a result of:

Medical Record Keeping

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The medical record is a powerful tool that allows the treating physician to track the patient’s medical history and identify problems or patterns that may help determine the course of health care.

The primary purpose of the medical record is to enable physicians to provide quality health care to their patients. It is a living document that tells the story of the patient and facilitates each encounter they have with health professionals involved in their care.

In addition to telling the patient’s story, complete and accurate medical records will meet all legal, regulatory and auditing requirements. Most importantly, however, they will contribute to comprehensive and high quality care for patients by optimizing the use of resources, improving efficiency and coordination in team-based and interprofessional settings, and facilitating research.