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Living the good life at 78
September 27th, 2016 Articles Guy Dorion, 78, has always loved to play sports. Every summer, he would spend hours playing tennis and golf, and in winter he enjoyed downhill and cross-country skiing. But last December the Trois-Rivières resident was forced …
Taking your Health to Heart
September 28th, 2018 Articles Sajjad Randawah and Andre Simard took very different routes to the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) after suffering heart attacks. Although they arrived under different circumstances, both ended up enjoying the same …
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 …
Gender matters when it comes to heart disease
March 20th, 2018 Articles It is easy to characterize heart disease as a male health issue. The “Hollywood Heart Attack” is the cinematic image of a man clutching his chest in agony that has come to shape our views of what a heart attack should look like. …
Cardiology Grand Rounds honours the Women's Healthy Heart Initiative on its first anniversary.
June 2nd, 2010 Wendy Wray, Nurse Director - Womens Healthy Heart Initiative, MUHC The Women’s Healthy Heart Initiative (WHHI) heart disease prevention clinic is part of the MUHC Women’s Health Initiative. The goal of this project is to increase the …
Growth of cardiology care responds to the burden of health
June 30th, 2010 “From around 900 BCE (before the Common Era) to the early 20th century, life expectancy increased by a decade, from about 33 to 43 years of age,” says Dr. Jacques Genest, McGill University Heath Centre (MUHC ) director of Cardiology. “In …
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 …
News from Mr. Saad
February 6th, 2020 Articles “I haven’t felt this good in a long time,” says patient after innovative cardiac procedure. Last fall, Nick Saad was the first MUHC patient to undergo a brand new treatment for severe arrhythmias involving irradiating the …