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Dr. E. W. Archibald honoured by Government of Canada
February 8th, 2008 On behalf of Canada’s Environment Minister John Baird, Mr. Daniel Petit, Member of Parliament for Charlesbourg– Haute-Saint-Charles, unveiled on February 8, 2008, a Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada plaque commemorating the …
Pandemic Planning and Implementation
January 20th, 2009 Bridging Medical Needs in the Context of an International Pandemic Dr. John Spika : Director, Bureau of Infectious Diseases, Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada …
Research shows single-patient rooms reduce hospital infections in ICU
January 11th, 2011 Research A research team from the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) and McGill University has demonstrated that private rooms in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) play a key role in reducing hospital infections like C - difficile. The …
Health professionals at the McGill University Health Centre lab are deluged with testing H1N1 samples
November 28th, 2009 More than 1,800 patients have found themselves in Quebec hospitals suffering from H1N1 since the start of the pandemic, including 240 admitted to intensive care units, with 100 of those on respirators. As many as 300 samples a day have …
It's time to tackle brain health
December 1st, 2016 Research News McRae Campbell is an active and healthy 63-year-old Montrealer. He is also a patient of the Montreal Chest Institute at the McGill University Health Centre (MCI -MUHC) who has been living with the HIV virus since 2001. …
Infection control is everybody's business
October 19th, 2016 Articles “Nosocomial infections are still a major issue and require continued attention,” says Sophie Baillargeon, MUHC interim associate director of Nursing (ADON) for Quality, Performance and Patient Engagement. “We know that proper …
How a few drops of blood led to a breakthrough in immunology
July 5th, 2017 Releases Montreal – Scientists from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) may have cracked the code to understanding the function of special cells called regulatory T Cells. Treg cells, as they are often …
Wanted: The Next Generation of Leaders for a TB-free world
March 23rd, 2018 Tuberculosis is an ancient disease that continues to plague modern day medicine. When Robert Koch presented his findings on Mycobacterium tuberculosis to a room of physicians in 1882, the German scientist believed his important discovery …
Wanted: Leaders for a TB-free world
March 23rd, 2018 World TB Day, which falls on March 24th each year, is designed to raise public awareness about the devastating health, social and economic consequences of tuberculosis (TB) and to step up efforts to end the global TB epidemic. The theme …
Hope is a human right
March 27th, 2018 Articles My philosophy is to always prevent unnecessary suffering, and that is something I have reflected on greatly.” Social worker Claire Duchesneau’s philosophy is one shared by many of her colleagues. After over 30 years of working …