'You've got to love the kids': Montreal plastic surgeon honoured for years of work with children
Ask Dr. Mirko Gilardino what he loves about his job and he'll tell you it's the bond he builds with his young patients as well as their families. On Thursday Gilardino, who is a plastic surgeon and head of the Montreal Children's Hospital's Craniofacial and Cleft Surgery team, was honoured with the Canadian Italian Business and Professional Association of Montreal's Person of the Year Award. For all the details, visit CBC.ca.
Tocophobia: Up to 10 per cent of women have a pathological fear of childbirth
The condition, which affects six to 10 per cent of women, is known as tocophobia, or tokophobia, from the Greek words for childbirth, tokos, and phobos, meaning intense fear. Just as some people have phobias about spiders or snakes or airplane flights, women with tocophobia have an overwhelming fear of pregnancy and childbirth, explained Dr. Tuong-Vi Nguyen, a reproductive psychiatrist at the McGill University Health Centre, in an interview with the National Post.
Reducing the risk of SIDS: Should babies sleep in cardboard boxes like in Finland?
For the past 75 years, parents in Finland have been laying their babies to sleep in cardboard boxes. Since that time, researchers have noticed a trend: the country’s infant mortality rate has decreased significantly. “We don’t have any evidence-based or scientific studies that have looked at them in a scientific way, but their principals are certainly consistent with what’s in line with our safe sleep recommendations,” says Dr. Denis Leduc, associate professor of pediatrics at the McGill University Health Centre. For the whole story, visit Global News.
When children sexually assault other children
Stories like Marie’s are more widespread than what is commonly believed. At the Sainte-Justine UHC, professionals manage annually an average of ten sexual assaults committed by children under 12 against children of the same age group. Numbers are similar at the Montreal Children Hospital. “Young children won’t invent a sexual assault story”, says Franziska Baltzer, pediatrician at the Montreal Children Hospital. “In my opinion, children assaulting other children have learnt their behaviour somewhere.” Details at Radio-Canada.ca.
Aging more quickly because of cancer
It’s not easy to explain disease and death to a nine-year old. When Jean-Gilles Gadoury was diagnosed with leukemia in September 2014, his mother Marie-Josée Gadoury herself had trouble understanding the full extent of the issue. “My mother didn’t tell me that I had leukemia,” recalls Jean-Gilles, whom we met in January at the oncology unit of the Montréal Children Hospital. More on Jean-Gilles’ story in Le Journal de Montréal.
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