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RI-MUHC team receives funding to develop improved radiation treatment devices for cancer patients
March 14th, 2016 Releases Gabriel Famulari (left) who will be working on the new delivery system for brachytherapy and Simon Dobri (right) who will be working on the novel detector, both graduate students in Dr. Enger's team. The Research Institute of …
Response to Radio Canada ombudsman data
March 14th, 2016 Readers would have benefited by being given a more complete picture of these data. Although this article shows that complaints increased by 3.5% this year, the previous two years were much higher (2012-13: 1377 and 2013-14: 1332), so the …
A day in the life of Tania Teolis, social worker
March 16th, 2016 Articles Social worker Tania Teolis is responsible for a 26-bed unit in the Department of Internal Medicine of the Royal Victoria Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre (RVH-MUHC). She sees patients aged 18 to 100 years of age …
Faces of the MUHC
March 16th, 2016 Articles Research As phenomenal as it is that modern medicine has evolved to the point where we can keep people alive with organs from others, there is a flip side. To prevent organ rejection, transplant recipients must take several …
MUHC in the News | March 14 - 18, 2016
MUHC in the News | March 14 - 18, 2016 Bed cuts and seasonal closures to come to the MUHC Dr. Ewa Sidorowicz, Associate Director General of Medical Affairs and Professional Services, sent an internal letter explaining the current budget situation at the …
McGill International TB Centre fights tuberculosis from the Canadian North to the Global South
March 24th, 2016 Project worker and a pharmacist from the IC-IMPACTS project. Photo credit: Amrita Daftary Tuberculosis is caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis that most often affects the lungs. The infection spreads from person to person …
MCI TB Clinic staff travel near and far to help patients manage tuberculosis
March 24th, 2016 Articles In 2012, when a tuberculosis outbreak plagued a small Inuit community in Nunavik, in the northern region of Quebec, Amélie Fosso, clinical nurse specialist at the outpatient Tuberculosis (TB) Clinic of the Montreal Chest …
Why are you closing beds at a brand new hospital? Does this mean I won't be able to get treated?
July 4th, 2016 Question: Why are you closing beds at a brand new hospital? Does this mean I won’t be able to get treated? Answer: Having to close beds – in other words, having to lower the number of patients the MUHC can admit and treat - is never an easy …
The MUHC clarifies its policy on end of life care
July 4th, 2016 Releases Last April, a MUHC patient requested medical assistance to dying and was transferred from the MUHC palliative care unit at the Glen to receive treatment. Both family and patient consented to the move for the procedure and were …
I heard the MUHC closed their geriatrics department. How does this make sense when the number of elderly patients is on the rise?
July 4th, 2016 Question: I heard the MUHC closed their geriatrics department. How does this make sense when the number of elderly patients is on the rise? Answer: Yes, the MUHC has recently had to close its 15 bed in-patient geriatric unit at the Montreal …