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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 …
Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery
Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery …
Head and Neck Cancer
Head and Neck Cancer Over 200,000 new cases of cancer is diagnosed yearly in Canada. Head and neck cancer is 6 th most common cancer after breast, prostate, colorectal and lung cancer. Head and neck cancer affect many organs including sinuses, mouth, …
Pushing screening of ovarian and endometrial cancers one step further
March 21st, 2018 Releases Montreal — A team from the Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) in Montreal has joined forces with researchers at Johns Hopkins to bring screening and early detection of ovarian and uterine cancers one …
Wanted: The Next Generation of Leaders for a TB-free world
March 23rd, 2018 Tuberculosis is an ancient disease that continues to plague modern day medicine. When Robert Koch presented his findings on Mycobacterium tuberculosis to a room of physicians in 1882, the German scientist believed his important discovery …
Wanted: Leaders for a TB-free world
March 23rd, 2018 World TB Day, which falls on March 24th each year, is designed to raise public awareness about the devastating health, social and economic consequences of tuberculosis (TB) and to step up efforts to end the global TB epidemic. The theme …
MUHC in the News | March 19 - 23, 2018
MUHC in the News | March 19 - 23, 2018 Pushing screening of ovarian and uterine cancers one step further Dr. Lucy Gilbert and Dr. Kris Jardon with colleagues from Johns Hopkins Institute in the U.S have developed a safer, less invasive test for detecting …
Tackling adherence to treatment on several fronts
March 27th, 2018 Releases Montreal – Learning to become self-sufficient and responsible is part of life’s journey through the teen and young adult years. Mistakes are often made, and lessons are learned. However, for young kidney-graft patients, any …