Health in the Community
While Physical Activity Levels Drop During the Covid-19 Pandemic McGill University Health Professionals Respond with a Summer Family Fitness Program
Source: McGill Comprehensive Health Improvement Program (CHIP) A recent study of over 450,000 smartphone users indicates that daily physical activity levels have fallen substantially during the...
July 15, 2020
Protecting the population’s health North of 60
Source: McGill News For Kami Kandola, MDCM’92, the past four months have been “non-stop busy.” Which, of course, isn’t surprising since Kandola is at...
July 9, 2020
Global shortage of N95 masks: Finding a solution right at home
Source: MUHC Like most healthcare institutions around the globe, the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) faced a critical shortage of N95 masks during...
July 6, 2020
Discussing the role of family physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic with colleagues at Tongji
By Yasmine Elmir On May 15 and June 10, colleagues from McGill University and Tongji University (Shanghai, China) came together through videoconference to...
July 2, 2020
McGill medical students offer a salve to worry and fear
By Lisa Dutton The bottom line was that the callers were scared and even distraught. What was this new virus that seemed to...
June 29, 2020
The case for Solidarity in the battle against COVID-19
Source: McGill News In February, as the evidence mounted that SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, was spreading to a growing number of...
June 11, 2020
McGill and Wuhan representatives discuss COVID-19 in virtual meeting
By Hermine Mesropyan On Tuesday, April 21, 2020, colleagues from McGill University and Wuhan University came together in a videoconference meeting to exchange...
June 5, 2020
Telemedicine in a pandemic
Dr. Mylène Arsenault reflects on the tool’s importance Dr. Mylène Arsenault, family physician at the GMF-U Herzl, puts her heart and soul into...
May 29, 2020
Wound-tracking software poised to be valuable telehealth tool
By Andrew Mahon, McGill Alumni News As our healthcare system adapts to the constraints of COVID-19, medical software developed by McGill’s Dr. Sheila Wang is...
May 26, 2020
Students work to support food bank efforts to meet the needs of Montrealers
McGill medical student-led initiative aims to provide help in light of increased demand caused by pandemic At both the societal and individual levels,...
May 20, 2020
Delivering healthcare in a pandemic
The Neuro’s staff have been flexible and innovative during COVID-19 Source: The Neuro The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented challenges for hospital staff...
May 14, 2020
Stepping out of their comfort zone and onto an entirely new Covid unit
Source: MUHC Within the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), staff have been redeployed to meet the demands of COVID-19. Over the last few...
May 14, 2020