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Defusing a Ticking Time-Bomb: The Women's Healthy Heart Initiative
February 28th, 2018 Articles “When a woman has a family and has a heart attack, the whole family explodes. The house exploded. Everything came to a standstill. The activities, the cooking, and the groceries – it’s like a bomb went off in my family. It …
Evenings and nights in the RVH emerg
June 20th, 2017 Articles “Working in the ED puts life into perspective. It helps you choose your battles in life, and it makes you count your blessings.” This is just a glimpse into the mindset of McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) Emergency …
Working with and for patients
June 20th, 2017 Articles Lia* is a patient of the Montreal Neurological Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC). In five years, she has undergone three brain surgeries, two of them to repair aneurysms. On a Tuesday afternoon in May, Lia …
Biofilms—the eradication has begun
June 21st, 2017 Releases Canadian researchers develop a novel enzyme technology to fight biofilms From left to right: Brendan D. Snarr and Donald C. Sheppard from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre and P. Lynne Howell, Natalie …
How a few drops of blood led to a breakthrough in immunology
July 5th, 2017 Releases Montreal – Scientists from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) may have cracked the code to understanding the function of special cells called regulatory T Cells. Treg cells, as they are often …
The Joshi Report
July 5th, 2017 Releases Montreal – The McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) has taken note of the publication of Dr. Arvind Joshi’s report, entitled Vision of the Service Offering of Health and Social Services in the West-End of Montreal . "We are …
All Independent MUHC Board Members Resign
July 10th, 2017 Releases Almost two years ago Minister Barrette appointed some new people and re-appointed others as independent members of the Board of Directors of the MUHC upon the recommendation of a committee of governance experts. We were chosen for …
New heart failure implant ends “clash of technologies”
July 17th, 2017 Releases Montreal – A patient from the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) with heart failure has successfully received a Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Defibrillator (CRT-D) that will allow him to safely undergo full-body magnetic …
New MUHC study calls for targeted screening of high-risk healthcare workers for tuberculosis
July 31st, 2017 Releases Montreal — Tuberculosis (TB) is a recognized hazard for healthcare workers, but the annual screening strategy currently in place in Canada and the United States is costly with very limited health benefits and should be …
Recruitment process for the Board of the MUHC
July 26th, 2017 Releases [COURTESY TRANSLATION] As part of the appointment process for the new independent members of the McGill University Health Center (MUHC) Board of Directors, a first meeting of the Recruitment Committee arranged by Mr. Gaétan …