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• Over 50 children in Canada (49 at SickKids) and approx. a hundred more
  worldwide have been saved by the discovery that heart transplantation can
  take place across blood types in infants. As a result, infant heart transplant
  waiting list deaths dropped from 56% to 7% 
• To date, 15 million children around the world have been spared the debilitating
  effects of chronic malnutrition because of Sprinkles – a SickKids invention 
• Number of deaths due to SIDS has dropped by 40% 
• Life expectancy for a child with Cystic Fibrosis has gone from four years fifty
  years ago to late forties today 
• 88 individuals per year in Ontario live an incomparably better quality of life due
  to pioneering epilepsy surgery techniques developed at SickKids 
• Today more than 80% of children with cancer will survive into adulthood; in the
  1960s this percentage was closer to 10% for many more common childhood
  cancers such as leukemia 
• In provinces mandating helmet use for cyclists 1 to 15 years of age, the
  average number of deaths decreased by 52 % each year