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Reducing Surgical Infections to Improve Patient Care
April 16th, 2018 Tucked away in a sanitized, non-descript corner of the fifth floor of the Glen site’s E-Block, a pioneering team from the Infection Prevention and Control Service, Infectious Diseases, surgical teams and pharmacy have significantly …
Low-Income HIV Patients Suffer with Healthcare Access
April 18th, 2018 Releases Montreal — Quebecers do not have equal access to anti-retroviral treatment (ART) for HIV and AIDS, a long-term study undertaken by a team from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) in …
RI-MUHC scientist takes HIV self-testing global with HIVSmart!™
September 25th, 2017 Releases Montreal – It is estimated that 30-40 per cent of people living with HIV do not know their HIV status, which can have a serious effect on the spread of the disease. One of the approaches developed to change this statistic, …
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 …
Scientists with bold ideas making big impact
December 6th, 2017 Articles An estimated 1 million cases of tuberculosis (TB) disease occur in children in any given year, killing as many as 210,000 – a staggering number one team of scientists from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health …
Food-induced anaphylaxis common among children despite adult supervision
December 14th, 2017 Releases MONTREAL – At least a third of reactions in children with food-induced anaphylaxis to a known allergen occur under adult supervision, according to a new study led by AllerGen researchers in Quebec, Ontario and Alberta. The …
Meet RIPK3: Good Cop, Bad Cop, all in one
February 14th, 2018 Releases Montreal — Each year, influenza kills half a million people globally with the elderly and very young most often the victims. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 37 children have died in the United …
Educating the immune system to prevent allergies
May 13th, 2015 Releases With the arrival of spring, millions of Canadians have begun their annual ritual of sneezing and wheezing due to seasonal allergies. A research team at the Montreal Children’s Hospital from the Research Institute of the McGill …
Face to face with...
March 10th, 2016 Articles Sophie Baillargeon, MUHC interim associate director of Nursing for Quality, Performance and Patient Engagement and MUHC president of the Council of Nurses "As a coach of quality improvement projects, you have to be convincing and …
Nursing workshop gets makeover and becomes The Infection Control Amazing Race!
October 28th, 2014 The Infection Control Amazing Race Teams Red team: Karen Gonzales, Iryna Petrukovich, Angie Gongora, Liliana Moreno Blue team: Tracey Cavaliere, Kathy Higgins, Edna Schell, Arlina Jones, Winsome Clarke Orange team: Sharon Johnson, …