MNH neurologist Liam Durcan wins QWF fiction award
Winnipeg-born Montrealer , a neurologist at the Montreal Neurological Hospital pulled off a major upset Tuesday night at the Quebec Writers’ Federation Literary Awards, winning the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction for his novel The Measure of Darkness. For more details, visit The Montreal Gazette.
MUHC Reproductive Centre gets larger, more modern facilities
The McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) Reproductive Centre, Quebec’s largest public fertility clinic, has moved from the Royal Victoria Hospital (RVH) legacy site to its new home on the 2nd floor of the Place Dupuis shopping centre. The modern new facility is aesthetically pleasing, with plenty of open spaces for patients and staff. It boasts five exam rooms, a procedure room, and a state-of-the-art embryology lab with environment controlled temperature and air quality. For more details about this exciting move, check out CBC, Radio-Canada, La Presse, TVA Nouvelles and Journal de Montréal.
MUHC researchers and clinicians hold a brain injury exposition at MGH this weekend
To show people the effects of a concussion, this weekend the MUHC researchers and clinicians will be holding a brain injury exposition that is part information session, part fundraiser. Dr. Reza Farivar, the scientific director of the traumatic brain injury program at the Montreal General Hospital, says many people do not realize how badly they are hurt, while their friends, family and colleagues don't know what a person with a concussion is experiencing. To find out more, visit CTV and The Loop or check out the Mind the Brain Expo which takes place this Saturday Nov. 26 in Livingston Hall of the Montreal General Hospital.
RI-MUHC researchers use bacteria to help combat cancer
RI-MUHC researchers, in partnership with the Jewish General Hospital and Ecole Polytechnique, have invented a new technique to combat cancer. This experimental treatment uses bacteria to transport chemotherapy to the heart of a tumour. To find out more about the technique, check out this episode of Radio-Canada’s scientific series Découverte, featuring the RI-MUHC’s Dr. Danuta Radzioch.
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