How to stay safe with allergies
Dr. Christine McCusker, Department head of pediatric allergy, immunology and dermatology spoke with CTV and Global TV about the severity of food allergies and how teens should take charge of their allergy. This follows the release of a coroner’s report about a young woman with a severe peanut allergy who died after kissing her boyfriend who had eaten a peanut butter sandwich.
Montreal Neuro's 3D brain mapping research gets technological boost
The Montreal Neurological Institute announced on Wednesday that it has received $1 million worth of supercomputing data-storage technology from EMC Corporation of Toronto. The donation will allow researchers to map the human brain to a degree of precision that would have been unthinkable a generation ago, raising hopes ultimately for treatments into neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Alan Evans, director of the McGill Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, predicted the technology will usher in a new golden age in brain research at the MNI. Read all the details in The Gazette and 24News.
10th Annual Men's Health Day coming up this Friday
MUHC urologist Dr. Peter Chan spoke with Mutsumi Takahashi on CTV News at Noon to promote the 10th annual Men’s Health Awareness Day Exam, which will be held on Friday, June 17th, 2016 from 9:00am to 5:00pm at Carrefour Angrignon. The free Public Men’s Health Exam includes a health questionnaire, blood pressure and cholesterol checks, and a prostate exam for men over the age of 40 and this year, men will have the option of making an appointment for a fertility exam.
New Laval clinic aims to expand reach of MUHC DovEE Project
The DOvEE project (Diagnosing Ovarian and Endometrial Cancer Early) of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) has opened a satellite clinic at Place des aînés de Laval. The new clinic, the first outside the Montreal area, will extend early diagnosis services for ovarian cancer and improve patient access to care for women in Laval and the north shore area of Montreal. http://www.courrierlaval.com/Actualites/Societe/2016-06-16/article-4561987/Une-clinique-satellite-de-diagnostic-precoce-du-cancer-de-lovaire-et-de-lendometre-maintenant-a-Laval/1
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