Health in the Community
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
15,000 COVID-19 tests produced by McGill University and the RI-MUHC: a step towards Canadian self-sufficiency
Source: MUHC In July 2020, the MUHC's Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine received 15,000 screening tests manufactured in Quebec by a team of...
September 25, 2020
MUHC palliative care pioneer, Dr. Balfour Mount, gets his own commemorative stamp from Canada Post
This latest set of stamps salutes groundbreaking contributions to medicine and research Source: MUHC Having received many honours for his trailblazing work in...
September 25, 2020
Helping people breathe easy
Respiratory therapists like Eric Fontaine are critical members of the healthcare team Source: The Neuro There are few things more important than the...
September 25, 2020
Supporting those grieving requires ‘literacy’, scholar suggests
Dr. Mary Ellen Macdonald was working on postdoctoral research about the experiences of parents whose child had died in the pediatric intensive care...
September 23, 2020
CanCOVID’s platform fully funded by the Government of Canada; converges with REAL to share knowledge with all Canadians
Source: CanCOVID The Government of Canada is investing $1.25 million to support the development of the transdisciplinary CanCOVID network, which was recently established with...
September 23, 2020
News for MUHC patients : Negative COVID-19 results can be transmitted via text message to MUHC patients
Source: MUHC Six hundred forty-five (645) text messages have been successfully sent to patients who have tested negative for COVID-19, since the implementation...
September 9, 2020