HealthBeat on CJAD Radio - October 3, 2010

Topics: childhood obesity, premature labor and Best Care for Life campaign

   1) Premature labour – Dr. Sylvain Chemtob, researcher at the Research Center of CHU Sainte-Justine, talks about how to prevent preterm labour.

            2) Childhood obesity – Dr. Laurent Legault, pediatrician at the Montreal Children’s Hospital and Head of the Diabetes Department at the MUHC, discusses how early detection can help to treat childhood obesity and gives parents advice on what to watch out for.

   3) Best Care for Life campaign – Jonathan Goldbloom, Executive Director of the MUHC’s Best Care for Life Campaign, presents changemontreal.ca, the new MUHC fundraising website.