The Walrus Talks at Home: Mental Health – March 25, 2021 LiveEvents March 18, 2021 1278 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 1796 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 3205 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 1810 When Cheryl Beck 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. Ther...
Kick-starting the year with $10M for brain health Melissa Arauz February 11, 2021 2630 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 2377 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 3688 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 2667 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...
MUHC Foundation launches $200 million Dream Big Campaign Tara Simonetta Mann October 23, 2020 3260 The Dream Big Campaign to change the course of lives and medicine will support the priorities of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC). The MUHC is one of Canada’s leading hospitals because Montrealers ha...
A Ride to Remember: One Montreal family takes life by the handlebars, and raises funds for brain research Kate Shingler September 21, 2020 3157 Helping to bathe and dress your grandfather is not a typical responsibility for a 17-year-old Montreal high school student. But even as teenagers, Matthew and Evan Wener were all too aware of the toll caring fo...
