Health in the Community
McGill to prepare the World Alzheimer Report for 2021 and 2022
McGill University has been commissioned by Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) to deliver the next two editions of the World Alzheimer Report on the crucial...
February 4, 2021
Behind the scenes on Canada’s COVID-19 Therapeutics Task Force
Even after the public health crisis passes, patients with COVID-19 will continue to arrive in the clinic—possibly for years to come, if SARS-CoV-2...
February 4, 2021
National coalition of independent scientists and communicators launch campaign to fight vaccine and COVID-19 misinformation
A coalition of scientists, communicators and health experts have come together in a nationwide initiative to empower Canadians to work together against misinformation...
January 28, 2021
Increased COVID-19 testing needed in Latin America and Caribbean
McGill researchers part of World Bank study designed to provide better knowledge and guidance for effective COVID-19 response in region While much of...
January 26, 2021
Gifting knowledge to pediatric surgeons in low and middle-income countries
Source: Taylor & Francis Group Taylor & Francis are proud to announce the collaboration of Dr Sherif Emil, of The Montreal Children's Hospital...
January 26, 2021
McGill researchers launch Multicultural Mental Health Resource Centre
Bell Let's Talk supports new website to help address the mental health toll of COVID-19 on diverse communities Source: McGill Newsroom Bell Let's...
January 18, 2021
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