Education
World Voice Day returns to McGill University
For the second year in a row, McGill will be organizing activities around World Voice Day. The organization of the free voice screenings...
April 1, 2016
RI-MUHC leads innovative network to support children with brain-based developmental disabilities and their families
FROM MUHC Montreal, March 31 2016 — The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) will lead an innovative pan-Canadian network...
March 31, 2016
Healing through art: New exhibit at the MUHC Glen site
By Elizabeth McPhedran, MUHC For some, art is an expressive outlet for experiences related to health and illness. While certain individuals may find...
March 23, 2016
A new course on organ donation to train medical students in Quebec and Canada
For the last two years, over fifty medical students from both Quebec and Canada, under the leadership of two McGill medical students and...
March 23, 2016
McGill Faculty of Medicine researcher to get CFI grant
Two McGill projects have received federal grants through the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF), including one led...
March 17, 2016
The Neuro enrolls Canada’s first patient in a new clinical trial for the treatment of brain tumours
Dr. Kevin Petrecca, William Feindel Chair in NeuroOncology at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital of McGill University and the MUHC, enrolled and treated Canada’s...
March 17, 2016
Teens test their smarts in the Brain Bee
By Maya-Olivia Eyssen, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital Montreal high school students to take part in brain quiz. Fifty students from nine Montreal...
March 11, 2016
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