Women’s Healthy Heart Initiative: saving lives one woman at a time Tara Simonetta Mann February 14, 2021 1771 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 2587 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 2314 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 3631 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 2621 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 3181 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 3104 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...
Trottier Family Foundation gift empowers Montreal’s most affected communities to fight COVID Tara Simonetta Mann September 21, 2020 3696 We are not all equal in the eyes of the virus. This is a realization that has come to the forefront over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the virus does not discriminate, systemic issues disadva...
Terry Fox Virtual Run – September 20, 2020 LiveEvents September 15, 2020 2354 The Terry Fox Virtual Run One Day. Your Way. Sunday, September 20th 40 Years after Terry Fox was Forced to Stop his Marathon of Hope, The Terry Fox Run Goes on Virtually “It’s got to keep going without me.” – T...
A made-in-Montreal solution to COVID-19 Tara Simonetta Mann August 21, 2020 9416 A key to controlling COVID-19 is testing Editor’s Note: When this article was originally posted, one of the photo captions contained a serious error. Dr. Susanne Bechstedt and Dr. Maureen McKeague were not cor...
