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The Technology Assessment Unit - supporting optimal use of health technologies at the MUHC
March 20th, 2018 When a new piece of equipment comes on the market or a new drug boasts great benefits for our patients, our healthcare teams need a place to turn to help them decide whether or not to use them. The Health Technology Assessment Unit (TAU) …
MUHC researchers contribute to two of 10 ‘Discoveries of the year’ selected by Québec Science for 2017
January 18th, 2018 Releases Québec Science magazine has selected its 10 Discoveries of the Year for 2017 , including two researchers affiliated with the McGill University Health Centre and its Research Institute (RI-MUHC). Congratulations to our …
Epigenetic alteration of a vitamin B12 processing gene shines new light on our understanding of rare diseases
January 30th, 2018 Releases Montreal – Rare hereditary recessive diseases were thought to be expressed in offspring only when both parents carry a mutation in the causal gene, but a new study is changing this paradigm. An international research team led …
Offre de tests de porteur
January 26th, 2018 Certaines maladies héréditaires récessives, aussi appelées maladies génétiques, sont plus fréquentes dans les régions du Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, de Charlevoix et de la Haute-Côte-Nord qu’ailleurs au Québec. Les personnes dont les …
Researchers still battling Alzheimer's
January 22nd, 2018 Articles “Sometimes I bake for my friends, I love baking,” says Betty, a very charming woman in her mid-70’s, well-dressed with white hair and vivid red lipstick. Betty has a good sense of humour and loves to talk. “It has been a long …
A New Outlook on Life
January 19th, 2018 Articles Kathleen VanderNoot was convinced that something unusual had happened in the Lachine Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) operating room during the cataract operation on her left eye. Once she got her new …
Bell Let’s Talk supports improved access to mental health care at the Montreal General Hospital
January 22nd, 2018 Releases Bell Let’s Talk today announced a donation of $400,000 to the Montreal General Hospital Foundation (MGHF) to acquire a new repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) device and a neuronavigator. These devices will help …
Re-programming innate immune cells to fight tuberculosis
January 11th, 2018 Releases MONTREAL – Tuberculosis (TB), an infectious disease which attacks the lungs, claims someone’s life every 20 seconds and 1.5 million lives worldwide every year. A cure has eluded scientists for more than a century but, now, a …
Pushing screening of ovarian and endometrial cancers one step further
March 21st, 2018 Releases Montreal — A team from the Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) in Montreal has joined forces with researchers at Johns Hopkins to bring screening and early detection of ovarian and uterine cancers one …
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 …