One day the mother of a refugee family called a community health clinic in Park Extension, a Montreal neighbourhood that has seen one of the highest case counts of COVID-19 in the city. She had...
As Quebec tries to tamp down its daily infection numbers—and without access to a COVID-19 vaccine for the general population yet—contact tracing has become ever more important in the fight to rein...
Age 50 has long been recommended as the time to start screening for colorectal cancer (CRC) because of the higher risk to those in the 50–54 category. But a study published early this year by...
Charles Posternack, BSc’77, MDCM’81, helps people emerge from dark rooms. Avulux, the company he co-founded, manufactures precision tinted eyeglasses, which alleviate the debilitating symptoms of...
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, infection control clinical nurse Layal Abou-Chacra, BSc(N)’05, started coaching frontline workers in hospitals and long-term care facilities in best practices to...
It’s fitting that a bequest from the late Robert Remis, BSc’67, MDCM’72, whose scientific findings and public health initiatives prevented countless cases of mother-to-child HIV transmission around...
