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ADHD Clinic helps children and their parents manage elusive neurobiological disorder
May 25th, 2010 Dr. Emmett Francoeur, director of The Children's Child Development Program, and Jodi Paterson, coordinator of the The Children's ADHD Clinic, both agree that while diagnosis of the neurobiological disorder ADHD is difficult, it is …
MCH specialists help children with asthma live normal lives
May 25th, 2010 As part of her eight ongoing research studies, Dr. Ducharme, above, is currently evaluating the efficacy and safety of certain drug therapies as well as working on finding the best way to communicate with and teach children who have asthma …
Nursing students from books to bedside
May 25th, 2010 Retrieving a lost teddy bear. Explaining a blood test or a complex procedure. Easing a child's fears. They don't teach this in nursing school. Fortunately, for the 200 or so student nurses enrolled each year in The Montreal Children's …
Helping the MUHC provide services from newborns to the elderly
May 25th, 2010 The Montreal Association for the Blind (MAB) is one of the first establishments contacted when a child is born blind. In response to a request from its MUHC partners, the MAB assesses a young patient's visual abilities and overall …
Clinic meets the special needs of teens and young adults with cancer
May 25th, 2010 Each year, the AYA Oncology Clinic sees about 60 new patients between the ages of 18 and 29 - about 40 are treated at the RVH and 20 at the Jewish General Hospital, where a sister clinic has been established. Kavan is cross- appointed with …
Teens and suicide, reading the signs and taking them seriously
September 10th, 2013 We currently live in a society that values quality of life over life itself. Simply said, when teens suffer emotionally and things go wrong, those more at risk feel that their life is not worth living," says Dr. Mounir Samy, …
Simple strategies help keep your child safe
May 25th, 2010 Debbie Friedman, administrative director of Trauma Care and Injury Prevention Program at The Montreal Children's emphasizes that, "Once a trauma has occurred we will provide the best care possible." Serious childhood injuries can happen in …
3D brain mapping first in Quebec
May 25th, 2010 Neurosurgeons perform some of the most delicate operations in medicine - a difference of 2 mm can mean life or death for a patient. Exact movements are therefore critical assets of a neurosurgeon. A precise "map" of the territory they will …
At the forefront of prostate cancer
June 15th, 2010 Dr. Armen Aprikian, MUHC urologist-in-chief and one of five MUHC surgeons specializing in complex urological cancers. (Photo: Pierre Dubois) According to Dr. Armen Aprikian, MUHC urologistin- chief, prostate cancer and non-melanoma skin …
State-of-the-heart
May 25th, 2010 Dr. Renzo Cecere, MUHC director of the Mechanical Heart Assist Program and MUHC surgical director of the Heart Failure and Heart Transplant Program, was the first surgeon in Canada in 2002 to implant a longterm mechanical heart device as …