Pain and infertility, often the face of this obscure disease

March is Endometriosis Awareness Month—The good news: treatments are available By MUHC Lena Dunham, director and actor in the popular television series, Girls,...
March 11, 2016

The challenge of tobacco control in Sub-Saharan Africa – the World Health Organization Framework Convention

The Secretariat of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) and the United Nations Development Programme have recently released a report...
February 23, 2016

S(t)imulation—a play created by McGill medical students— encourages empathy and an open dialogue about sex, people and the power of ideas

On March 19 and 20, students from the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University will bring S(t)imulation,a creative foray into the world of...
February 23, 2016

Providing affordable diagnosis to solve India’s TB epidemic

Dr. Madhukar Pai, Associate Director of the McGill International TB Centre and Director of McGill Global Health Programs, compared the fight against tuberculosis...
February 18, 2016

Ban Ki-moon to students: Rise to global challenges

By Neale McDevitt Humanitarian action must empower young people, who should be mobilized to effect lasting change, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told...
February 17, 2016

JOOAY App to launch Android version

JOOAY is an app developed by Dr. Keiko Shikako-Thomas and Dr. Annette Majnemer from the School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, that helps...
February 17, 2016

25 Canada Research Chairs for McGill

By Meaghan Thurston Twenty-five outstanding McGill researchers are being awarded Canada Research Chairs(CRC), as announced February 9 by the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science, at...
February 12, 2016

Teaching inter-professional management of chronic pain

Innovative online McGill program offers training for health care professionals A growing societal problem Not being properly trained to help patients manage chronic...
February 12, 2016

MUHC researchers members of cancer Dream Team

By MUHC Public Affairs A team from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) led by Dr. Nada Jabado, hemato-oncologist...
February 11, 2016

Alive thanks to teamwork and innovative research

By Julie Robert Serges Bériault’s life changed in 2012, when he was diagnosed with a bile duct cancer of the liver. The father...
February 11, 2016

McGill residents provided opportunity to self-care

To properly care for patients, doctors must first learn to care for themselves Under the theme of “Peak performance under high stress environments,”...
February 5, 2016

Leadership: Key to care, retention among nurses

Study examines impacts of abusive leadership among novice nurses Nurses faced with abusive managers are more likely to quit. But a recent study...
January 25, 2016