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The Pain Management Program
November 3rd, 2013 Chronic pain affects approximately one third of the population, at great cost to the individual patient and to society. With the ageing population and improved survival rates for conditions such as cancer, these figures will probably …
Stephen Masciotra: Trauma Patient
June 28th, 2014 A serious car accident left 18-year-old Stephen Masciotra in a coma that his family and medical professionals weren’t sure he would awaken from. Six weeks later, he did wake up, though he had lost much of his memory, as well as his …
Spinning for a Cause
October 4th, 2011 DJs spun their hearts out at the second annual Music for the Massive event, which raised more than $870 for the Montreal Chest Institute of the McGill University Health Centre. The fundraiser was held on Aug. 20 at Club Lambi, and …
Doctors and Nurses Dance Night
October 5th, 2011 A recent fundraising event for The Best Care for Life Campaign gave some Montreal club employees the chance to be a doctor or a nurse for just one night. Chris Garde, a security guard at the Royal Victoria Hospital, organized the event …
Panday Tinig Choir Sings Their Love in Support of the MUHC
October 5th, 2011 More than 400 people turned out to hear Love in Any Language , a benefit concert put on by the Panday Tinig Choral Ensemble in support of the McGill University Health Centre’s Best Care for Life Campaign. Montreal’s Filipino community …
Cutting-Edge Design makes for Cutting Edge Emergency Departments at the Glen
October 19th, 2011 As the only hospital in Quebec and one of only two in Canada to use a linear design for its Emergency Departments (ED), the pediatric and adult EDs at the Glen Campus will be as cutting-edge as they come. A linear or accordion design …
Confident individuals, ready to go back into the real world
February 10th, 2011 Now retired, Bob Hartley volunteers in Occupational Therapy unit at the Adult Psychiatry department of the MUHC, where for the last seven years he has taken on the role as woodworking class supervisor. What he enjoys the most about his …
New heart pump puts the squeeze on stroke
February 14th, 2011 Photos:Pierre Dubois, Multimedia, MUHC Just in time for Valentine’s Day, a new type of heart assist device that pumps blood by rhythmically squeezing the aorta has been implanted into a patient at the McGill University Health Centre …
Roadwork around the Glen site: now that’s a construction site!
February 24th, 2011 The intersection of Décarie and Saint-Jacques is breaking all records these days: never before has the area seen so many construction workers, cranes, trucks or backhoes. Not only is work being carried out on the Glen Campus site, but …
The BCG World Atlas: a world first in the fight against tuberculosis
March 23rd, 2011 McGill, RI MUHC researchers launch free online atlas of TB vaccination policies from around the world Tuberculosis (TB) continues to pose a major global health threat. Someone in the world is newly infected with TB bacteria every second. …