MUHC in the Media - September 11, 2023

At just nine days old, Samuel is the youngest child in North America to have received Zolgensma, a gene therapy for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy. Thanks to this achievement from the Montreal Children's Hospital, his quality of life will be greatly improved, says Dr. Maryam Oskoui, head of Pediatric Neurology. TVA Nouvelles, CTV News, Noovo Info, CBC

Many pediatric hospitals in Canada use an integrated approach to care for patients with complex needs. They facilitate communication between different departments to provide a unified multidisciplinary response, says Dr. Sara Long-Gagné, co-director of Intermediate-Complexity Coordination and Navigation service at the Montreal Children's Hospital. These patients are now living longer and their transition to more fragmented adult care can sometimes prove challenging. The Globe and Mail

As is the case every year at the end of summer, cases of enterovirus are currently on the rise in Quebec's pediatric hospitals. Patients seem particularly sick this year, notes Dr. Jesse Papenburg, pediatric infectious disease specialist and medical microbiologist at the Montreal Children's Hospital. Le Devoir, TVA Nouvelles

Post-partum depression is under-diagnosed, because it takes many forms (anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, compulsive disorder, etc.). Women don't always recognize themselves in the image we have of post-partum depression and we should instead be talking about "mental health disorders in the perinatal period", says Dr. Tuong-Vi Nguyen, a psychiatrist specializing in perinatal care at the McGill University Health Centre. 24 Heures

At this lab at The Neuro, veteran neurosurgeon Dr. Rolando Del Maestro, has developed technology to simulate life-saving procedures more realistically than ever. Globe and Mail

Dr. Sam Shemie, an associate investigator in the Cardiovascular Health Across the Lifespan Program at the RI-MUHC and a specialist in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, is quoted in this article by The Ottawa Citizen that explains how the end of a young woman's life led her mom to help rewrite the medical definition of death.