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November is CPR Awareness Month
November 16th, 2015 At the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), there are more than 600 Code Blue activations a year. The activation varies from a false alert to a full cardiac arrest. They can happen anywhere at any time, so the Scout’s and Guide’s …
On women and leadership with Martine Alfonso
March 8th, 2016 Articles Because at the MUHC we have over 10 000 women who are committed to giving their best for the wellbeing of our patients. Here's an example of one of our outstanding leaders. Happy international women's day! Martine Alfonso, …
Marguerite Dubeau is here to tell her story...
March 9th, 2016 Articles "The colonoscopy saved my life and I am now happy to be a grandmother." With a strong family history of cancer and health challenges over the years Marguerite Dubeau was not about to take chances when she was offered to undergo …
Face to face with...
March 10th, 2016 Articles Sophie Baillargeon, MUHC interim associate director of Nursing for Quality, Performance and Patient Engagement and MUHC president of the Council of Nurses "As a coach of quality improvement projects, you have to be convincing and …
Heart attacks could be reduced by rethinking the way we prescribe statins
March 11th, 2016 Releases Millions of people today take statins to help lower their cholesterol level. Currently statins are prescribed to patients based on their future risk of cardiovascular disease – mainly driven by age – which excludes many …
Joanna, master of her destiny
March 10th, 2016 Articles Joanna Felemegos is a smart, soft-spoken 26 year-old who has overcome quite a few hurdles in life. She has sickle cell beta-thalassemia disease, a lifelong condition that causes anemia and episodes of intense pain that start …
RI-MUHC team receives funding to develop improved radiation treatment devices for cancer patients
March 14th, 2016 Releases Gabriel Famulari (left) who will be working on the new delivery system for brachytherapy and Simon Dobri (right) who will be working on the novel detector, both graduate students in Dr. Enger's team. The Research Institute of …
Response to Radio Canada ombudsman data
March 14th, 2016 Readers would have benefited by being given a more complete picture of these data. Although this article shows that complaints increased by 3.5% this year, the previous two years were much higher (2012-13: 1377 and 2013-14: 1332), so the …
A day in the life of Tania Teolis, social worker
March 16th, 2016 Articles Social worker Tania Teolis is responsible for a 26-bed unit in the Department of Internal Medicine of the Royal Victoria Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre (RVH-MUHC). She sees patients aged 18 to 100 years of age …
Faces of the MUHC
March 16th, 2016 Articles Research As phenomenal as it is that modern medicine has evolved to the point where we can keep people alive with organs from others, there is a flip side. To prevent organ rejection, transplant recipients must take several …