Volume 8, numéro 2

St. Clair Armitage is the McGill University Health Centre’s newly named PPP Project Director. In this HP exclusive, he explains the process that will be used to design, build, finance and maintain the Glen Campus portion of the MUHC Redevelopment Project.

The research of Dr. Eric Fombonne, Head of the Division of Child Psychiatry at the Montreal Children’s Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), has helped disprove the link between childhood inoculations and autism.

Mrs. Marjorie Bronfman recently announced her decision to make a generous donation in support of two projects that will have an immediate impact on the well-being of MUHC patients and that will continue to yield benefits once the redevelopment is complete.

With spring just beginning, the Women's Health Mission continues to blossom! The bestselling cookbook, Montreal Cooks, has just been reprinted and an east-meets west concert is being staged at the Monument National.

From the battlefields of World War II to the emergency room of the Montreal General Hospital and the principal’s office of McGill University, Dr. H. Rocke Robertson led a truly remarkable life.

The Best Care for Life campaign is well past its halfway mark and we are doing more than ever to secure the important corporate- and leadership-level gifts that constitute the lion’s share of the campaign’s $300-million objective.

Doctors can now provide gyneco-logical cancer patients with a new and safer standard of care. Using a gamma detection system probe, oncologists can successfully identify the first lymph node to which cancer cells will travel.

Life insurance is commonly seen as a safety net that will provide for your dependants in the event of your death. But there is another valuable way of using a life insurance policy: donating it to the charity of your choice.

In January 2008, the McGill University Health Centre unveiled a new preliminary plan for the Mountain Campus.