Research News

The Montreal Children’s Hospital of the MUHC is now urging the government of Quebec to launch a universal hearing-screening program for all newborns born in Quebec and has launched a letter-writing campaign to support this initiative.

A press conference was held today at the MUHC's Women's Health Pavilion to announce the relaunch of bestselling cookbook Montreal Cooks, which has helped support groundbreaking research into ovarian cancer.

A new fundamental mechanism of how tumour cells communicate has just been discovered by the team of Dr. Janusz Rak at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) in collaboration with Dr Guha from the University of Toronto.

Heart transplant patient survives thanks to tiny temporary pump implanted by MUHC cardiologist, Dr. Renzo Cecere.

The research of Dr. Lawrence Rosenberg, a leading physician and scientist at MUHC has recently been building momentum in the lab and in the clinic for type 1 diabetes.

Ocular melanoma is a challenging disease to fight, especially since chemotherapy is not very effective. Now, a PhD research project led by Dr. Dana Faingold may open the door for very promising new treatment options for this pathology.

A recent study by Dr. Christina Haston, a researcher at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, sheds some new light on the bone problems that generally accompany cystic fibrosis. 

A new study, led by researchers at The Montreal Children’s Hospital (MCH) of the MUHC, has revealed that certain over-the-counter earwax softeners can cause severe inflammation and damage to the eardrum and inner ear.

The main regulators of the immune system are thought to play a critical role in the onset of type 1 diabetes, as demonstrated by Dr. Ciriaco Piccirillo, researcher in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Research Institute of the MUHC.