Health in the Community
RI-MUHC researcher Nitika Pant Pai advocates improved access to HIV self-testing for Canadians
Canada approves HIV self-testing kit ahead of World AIDS Day 2020 Source: CMAJ and RI-MUHC People with HIV can live long and healthy lives. A...
December 2, 2020
Innovative school clinic puts children at heart
The Heart & Hands Pediatric Clinic celebrated its first anniversary this past October, serving as Quebec’s only school-based pediatric clinic and Canada’s only...
November 25, 2020
New services for cancer patients at the RI-MUHC Centre for Innovative Medicine
The Centre for Innovative Medicine and Cedars Cancer Centre jointly offer additional space for infusion treatments The Centre for Innovative Medicine (CIM) at...
November 12, 2020
Infection control goes viral
An infection control clinical nurse spearheaded a COVID coaching network for thousands of frontline workers By Philip Fine When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, infection...
November 2, 2020
Pandemic pundits
COVID-19 thrust them into the media spotlight. Now, three McGillians, Natalie Stake-Doucet, BN’14, MSc(A)’16, Dr. Matthew Oughton, PGME’06, and Dr. Ashleigh Tuite, MSc’05,...
November 2, 2020
Training the tracers
By Philip Fine As Quebec tries to tamp down its daily infection numbers—and without a COVID-19 vaccine for the general population on the...
October 27, 2020
Brave in the Face of Danger
By Dr. Julian Willett, PhD student in Qualitative Life Sciences A cough in the Emergency Room. A cough in the supermarket. A cough...
October 16, 2020
COVID-19: What’s the prognosis?
By Mark Witten Canada had a rocky start to the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in Quebec and Ontario. But public health officials, governments, researchers,...
October 14, 2020
McGill brain-scanning spinoff acquired by French firm
TPMD to be bought out by Qynapse of France, both companies share strengths in AI and neuro-imaging technologies Source: McGill Research & Innovation...
October 13, 2020
MUHC Foundation launches $200M Dream Big Campaign
The Dream Big Campaign to change the course of lives and medicine supports the priorities of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC). Source: The MUHC...
September 30, 2020
Ensuring Indigenous children have #aHand2Hold
New book revisits pediatrician-led campaign that fostered change in longstanding provincial air evacuation practice “It had always been upsetting to see children...
September 29, 2020
Remote assessment of brain health during a pandemic
Telephone and video evaluations keep seniors safe, and opportunities exist for improved assessment by distance Source: Shawn Hayward, The Neuro A team of...
September 29, 2020