Student-led McGill camp promotes diversity in health care professions

By McGill Reporter Staff The energy and volume were on high for the Jeopardy game focusing on speech pathology at the recent Explore!...
July 5, 2017

The Neuro to create world’s first ALS Phase 1 clinical trial unit

The Tenaquip Foundation donation will allow for faster drug development, better care for ALS patients By Shawn Hayward, the Neuro A generous donation...
July 4, 2017

Opinion: Board chair offers a plan for moving forward at the MUHC

By Claudio Bussandri, Chair of the Board of Directors at the McGill University Health Centre Before looking ahead, it is important to thank...
June 28, 2017

Laurent Duvernay-Tardif helps schoolchildren find balanced life style

While the LDT program stresses physical activity and a healthy lifestyle, Laurent Duvernay-Tardif said his mission is to promote balance. “It’s about a balance...
June 28, 2017

Teaching Home Care in the Simulated Apartment

As the average age of the population rises, care is moving out of the hospitals and into the homes. Home care may be...
June 28, 2017

Thomas Roddick, antisepsis and the birth of modern surgery at McGill

By Gillian Woodford Dr. Thomas Roddick (1846-1923) is probably best known around McGill as the name behind the Roddick Gates, which his wife...
June 20, 2017

Leading-edge neuroscience network renews agreement

McGill, Oxford and ZNZ renew tripartite partnership agreement at ceremony at McGill on May 29 By Meaghan Thurston, The McGill Reporter The renewal of...
June 9, 2017

ALS – Fostering awareness of a devastating disease

By Shawn Hayward, The Neuro ALS takes away the patient’s motor functions one at a time, and the progress of finding effective drugs...
June 8, 2017

June is Brain Injury Awareness Month

Much work to be done to improve diagnosis and treatment By Victor Swoboda, The Neuro When NHL star player Sidney Crosby suffered a...
June 8, 2017

Giving birth to new ideas

By Diane Weidner On May 11th, collaboration between McGill University, the University of Ottawa and CAE Healthcare resulted in a full day of...
June 7, 2017

Excellence for all with mastery learning

Diane B. Wayne’s workshop on Simulation-Based Mastery Learning in medical education focuses on thematic, sustained and cumulative efforts By Diane Weidner When Dr....
June 2, 2017

June is Stroke Month

The Neuro is an important centre for stroke care in Montreal By Shawn Hayward, The Neuro The Montreal Neurological Institute (The Neuro) is...
June 2, 2017