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The MAUDE Unit at the Glen: an ideal environment to welcome young adults with congenital heart disease
February 13th, 2015 Articles The Maude Unit celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2015! “We have created an environment where young patients with congenital heart disease feel at home,” says Cardiologist and MAUDE Director Dr. Ariane Marelli. When …
Award-winning ovarian cancer website offers info to suit each patient’s needs
February 13th, 2015 “It was a real pleasure to have the whole team work together on the website,” says clinical nurse specialist Joanne Power. The MUHC Ovarian Cancer Guide developed by an RVH’s Gynaecologic Oncology interdisciplinary team with the MUHC’s …
Cannabis: World-renowned researchers discuss a new frontier in therapeutics
February 14th, 2015 Releases From left to right: Dr. Mark Ware, Dr. Igor Grant, Professor Roger Pertwee While debate about recreational marijuana use continues, researchers are investigating the effectiveness of cannabis for treating pain, spasticity, and …
New hope in the fight against pain
February 17th, 2015 Releases An international study led by scientists at McGill University reports, for the first time, that drugs that selectively target the melatonin MT2 receptor represent a novel class of analgesic drugs that could be used to treat …
Launch of the 3rd Annual Toonie Challenge
February 24th, 2015 Releases The 3rd Annual Toonie Challenge, an MUHC Foundation fundraising initiative, kicked off in local Montreal partner schools on Wednesday, January 28 and will culminate on Friday March 27 when all participating schools will …
Breakthrough in understanding how cancer cells metastasize
February 27th, 2015 Releases A protein commonly found in human cells could be an important switch that activates cancer cell metastasis, according to a new study by researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital - The Neuro at McGill …
A face-to-face with our research leaders—Dr Rima Rozen
March 2nd, 2015 Interview with Dr Rima Rozen James McGill Professor, Departments of Human Genetics and Pediatrics, McGill University Researcher, medical genetics and genomics, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) Medical …
Child Health and Human Development at the RI-MUHC
March 4th, 2015 Dr. Constantin Polychronakos, researcher and leader of the Child Health and Human Development Program at the RI-MUHC and a professor in the Department of Pediatrics at McGill University. Many diseases start before birth, some even before …
It’s all about the wiring
February 13th, 2015 From left to right: Dr. Robert Hess, Dr. Reza Farivar and Dr. Salvatore Carbonetto. The new team of neuroscientists will occupy the research floors in the Livingston building of the MGH. Merging two neuroscience teams who have never …
MUHC doctor and patient tackle concussions head on
March 12th, 2014 Dr. J. Scott Delaney Though awareness has been growing rapidly about the risk of concussion in contact sports, thousands of cases continue to occur every year in Canada in young athletes. Unfortunately, many are often misguided about …