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Heart attacks could be reduced by rethinking the way we prescribe statins
March 11th, 2016 Releases Millions of people today take statins to help lower their cholesterol level. Currently statins are prescribed to patients based on their future risk of cardiovascular disease – mainly driven by age – which excludes many …
Joanna, master of her destiny
March 10th, 2016 Articles Joanna Felemegos is a smart, soft-spoken 26 year-old who has overcome quite a few hurdles in life. She has sickle cell beta-thalassemia disease, a lifelong condition that causes anemia and episodes of intense pain that start …
Submit and manage projects (Nagano)
Submit and manage projects (Nagano) The MUHC Research Ethics Board (REB) uses a web based platform called Nagano for the submission and review of all studies conducted at MUHC. Please visit this website frequently for all the latest information on Nagano. …
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 …
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 …
National Health Ethics Week, April 4 - 10, 2016
March 24th, 2016 The MUHC Centre for Applied Ethics (CAE) is proud to present a series of events for National Health Ethics Week, from April 4 - 10, 2016, in collaboration with the Canadian Bioethics Society . Held throughout Canada , this week aims to …