MUHC in the Media - April 29, 2024

Monique Beaupré, aged 70, has been living with her older brother Jean-Claude's kidney for 50 years. Jean-Claude died in 2018, and the organ he donated to his sister is 92 years old. The operation took place at the Royal Victoria Hospital, where Mrs. Beaupré continues to be followed. 

"It's extraordinary," notes MUHC Organ and Tissue Donation Nurse Clinician Wendy Sherry. "It's the first time I've seen someone make 50 years with a kidney transplant. It means the match with his brother was almost perfect [...] It just goes to show how much living donation can change someone's life," says Wendy , on the occasion of National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Week. To find out more about Monique Beaupré's story, read the Journal de Montréal.  Article.

Omnipresent in our diet, sugar has many harmful effects on children's health, as demonstrated by this series of articles in the Journal de Montréal, featuring Dr. Annie Marleau, Head of Dentistry and Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Montreal Children's Hospital (MCH), and Dr. Julie St-Pierre, Pediatrician at the MCH. Journal de Montréal 1, Journal de Montréal 2, Journal de Montréal 3, Journal de Montréal 4, Journal de Montréal 5

Thanks to the recovery program at Montreal General Hospital of the MUHC, established in 2018 by Dr. David Hornstein, patients discharged from intensive care can rely on a support group, among other resources, to share various feelings, including the shame and guilt of having put their loved ones and families through so much emotion. Listen to the touching interview given by Ilia Grigoriev, Monique Chalifour, and Dr. David Hornstein on the Pénélope radio show.

Emanuel Nkanga, Head of the Laboratory at the MUHC Reproductive Centre, describes the process that women who choose to have a child alone must go through. 98.5 FM

The Montreal Children's Hospital is the first healthcare facility in Quebec to implement a standardized bereavement follow-up program across all its divisions. Matthew Park, program coordinator and social worker, describes the program on Radio-Canada.

The Free Press profiles Dr. Douglas MacEwan, former radiologist at the Montreal Children's Hospital and the Montreal General Hospital, and philanthropist who has contributed greatly to the arts.

It's important to stay calm, choose your battles, be strategic, and keep the communication channel open. Jennifer Russell, a clinical psychologist and head of the psychology department for adult sites at the MUHC, discusses this with host Joanne Vrakas on CJAD.