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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 …
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 …
New Leadership at the MUHC
April 18th, 2018 Releases Montreal - On behalf of the Board of Directors and the entire McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) Peter Kruyt, Chair of the Board, congratulated Dr. Pierre Gfeller today on his appointment as President and Executive Director. …
As harmful as dehydration?
May 22nd, 2018 Releases Research We are all familiar with the drawbacks of dehydration, but we rarely hear about the harmful effects of overhydration. It is known that excess fluid accumulation can lead to dangerously low sodium levels in the blood or …
The MUHC, a proud partner of the new Musculoskeletal sarcoma cancer network
May 23rd, 2018 Releases The McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) is pleased to be one of three designated reference centres in Quebec for the implementation of the new Musculoskeletal sarcoma cancer network. In collaboration with Hôpital …
Canadians are aging well, but ...
May 22nd, 2018 Releases Research It's not every day that one receives a call from a researcher asking if they want to participate in a study on aging for the next 20 years of their lives. That's what 50,000 Canadians aged 45 to 85 have agreed to do in …
May 11 to 17, 2015 is Nursing Week
May 11th, 2015 The MUHC believes in supporting nursing research. Many of the nurses' projects are funded by the MUHC Foundation and its partner foundations as well as by the Newton Foundation, through the Small Grant Research Funds and the Eureka! …