Bringing Canada to the forefront of scientific innovation Melissa Arauz April 6, 2021 557 Buzzing with excitement and filled with ground-breaking ideas, the next generation of brain scientists are eager to push the envelope and take us deeper into the unknown. From exploring the effects of cannabis ...
Monique’s story: a life cut short by a silent killer Tara Simonetta Mann April 5, 2021 1366 Monique Girard-Solomita led a happy, adventurous life. A journalist with Le Journal de Montreal for thirty years, the proud Lac Saint-Jean native travelled the world, reporting on stories in countries from Chin...
The Walrus Talks at Home: Mental Health – March 25, 2021 LiveEvents March 18, 2021 278 The Walrus Talks at Home: Mental Health A meaningful conversation on individual and collective wellness. Four speakers discuss and answer your questions about the pervasive stigmatization of mental health,...
MCI and MUHC Foundations join forces to help Montrealers breathe easier Tara Simonetta Mann March 16, 2021 281 For nearly sixty years, the Montreal Chest Institute (MCI) Foundation has played a vital role in raising much-needed funds to help patients living with complex and chronic respiratory conditions to breathe easi...
Stress: It’s all in your head, or is it? Melissa Arauz March 10, 2021 478 When we think about mental health, we often think of the brain in our heads. But what about what some refer to as our second brain – the gut? Could changes to the trillions of microorganisms in the gut affect o...
Women’s Healthy Heart Initiative: saving lives one woman at a time Tara Simonetta Mann February 14, 2021 404 When Cheryl Bertoia had a heart attack at age 53, she was in denial. “I refused to accept that it happened because I was only 53 and I was not overweight, I did not have high blood pressure or cholesterol. T...
Kick-starting the year with $10M for brain health Melissa Arauz February 11, 2021 748 2020 took a drastic toll on people’s health in more ways than one. Pre-pandemic, many Canadians were already living with health conditions that impacted their everyday lives, but with the COVID-19 outbreak, the...
New Antimicrobial Resistance Centre will tackle humanity’s greatest threat Tara Simonetta Mann January 5, 2021 893 Alongside health threats like COVID-19 and heart disease, an even larger health crisis is brewing. Antibiotic resistance is considered by the Word Health Organization (WHO) to be one of humanity’s greatest thre...
Skip Beloff champions care for little-known heart condition Tara Simonetta Mann December 10, 2020 761 Charles “Skip” Beloff was just returning from an Italian vacation with his wife when he began to experience some strange symptoms. He went from enjoying the hot weather and great food of Italy to lightheadednes...
The long recovery after COVID-19 for Paul Mayrand Tara Simonetta Mann November 12, 2020 814 Paul Mayrand has no memory of 30 days of his life last March and April. One of the first COVID-19 patients at the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), Mayrand nearly didn’t make it. He spent 67 days in ho...
