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In Memoriam — Dr. Ronald Melzack
December 31st, 2019 News Articles Dr. Ronald Melzack, a world-renowned pioneer in the field of chronic pain and pain control who dedicated his life to revolutionizing pain medicine, passed away on December 22, 2019. He devoted his half-century long career …
McGill University Health Centre Ushers in New Decade with First Female Surgeon-in-Chief
January 7th, 2020 News Releases Montreal - Dr. Pierre Gfeller, President and Executive Director of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), is pleased to announce the institution’s latest major clinical appointment following a resolution passed by the …
Meeting the global health challenge of worms that cause disease
January 10th, 2020 Research News Canadians may bring parasitic intestinal worms back as unwanted souvenirs from travels abroad. But for more than one billion people in Asia, Africa and Latin America, they are more constant companions. Helminth parasitic …
Sexual dimorphism: The female hormone estrogen may facilitate the growth of liver metastases in non-sex-specific cancers
January 16th, 2020 Releases News Dr. Pnina Brodt (centre) with some co-authors of the study "Sexual dimorphism and the role of estrogen in the immune microenvironment of liver metastases", from left to right: Ni Wang, Stéphanie Perrino, Simon Milette …
News from Mr. Saad
February 6th, 2020 Articles “I haven’t felt this good in a long time,” says patient after innovative cardiac procedure. Last fall, Nick Saad was the first MUHC patient to undergo a brand new treatment for severe arrhythmias involving irradiating the …
Overcoming the greatest obstacle to curing HIV
February 12th, 2020 Research News In a groundbreaking study published in Nature , an American team of researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Emory University in Atlanta achieved a long-sought-after goal: to push the HIV …
Pediatric researchers in Montreal unite to tackle infection and immunity on two different fronts
February 13th, 2020 Research News Researchers at the Montreal Children’s Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre – the Children’s - and the CHU Sainte-Justine are coming together within the scope of two new projects, funded under the auspices of …
Sweethearts met ten years ago at the MUHC
February 14th, 2020 Articles Patricia Forde was on the verge of graduating from patient attendant (PAB) school when she landed a job at the Royal Victoria Hospital of the MUHC. She was thrilled about the opportunity and eager to get to work; the last …
The MUHC is proud of its life-saving adult ECMO program
February 18th, 2020 Releases News Montreal , - An article published today focused on the costs related to ECMO, or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, an advanced therapy used to treat patients in cardiac arrest or with severe respiratory failure, for …
Appointments of Drs. Francine Tremblay and Tarek Razek as Associate Directors of Surgical Services at the Royal Victoria Hospital and Montreal General Hospital of the MUHC
February 19th, 2020 News On February 1, 2020, Dr. Francine Tremblay officially took on her new role as Associate Director of Surgical Services at the Royal Victoria Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre (RVH-MUHC). Dr. Tremblay is Assistant …