Hospital News

A new transplant technology being used in Montreal could help doctors make more donated livers suitable for transplantation — potentially giving more patients access to life-saving organs.

In August, the Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM) reported what it described as the first North American liver transplant using an organ treated with its new regen...

Dr. Andrew Mackie’s research aims to smooth the risky transition from children’s hospital to adult clinic for Canada’s youth.

Like most young adults, Sara Rodrigue faced a host of new demands when she turned 18, from starting university with its new academic and social challenges to assuming greater independence in her day-to-day life.

However, ...

Instead of being framed as an economic cost centre, hospitals can be part of the health, economic and sovereignty solution by supporting Canadian controlled private corporations through their procurement policies.

“We’ll buy Canadian. We’ll build Canadian. And together we will build Canada strong.” Prime Minister Mark Carney made his strategy clear, as Canada grapples with a ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified immune system changes that can be detected up to 10 years before inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) develops, offering new insight into how the disease begins.

Published July 21 in Gut, the study is one of the most comprehensive investigations to date of the preclinical phase of IBD. Using antibod...

haring a common tongue is a key feature for improved long-term health for Francophone and diverse linguistic communities according to researchers from the University of Ottawa and the University of Manitoba.

The retrospective study published in the journal AJE Advances: Research in Epidemiology studied a total of 50,375 respondents over 15 years to find both Francophon...