2007 Press releases

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The Montreal Heart Institute and Hospital Maisonneuve-Rosemont successfully performed their first combined heart-kidney transplant
12/02/2008

The Montreal Heart Institute secures a grant of close to $ 5 million as part of the Génome Québec competition
3/10/2007

The director of the Montreal heart institute’s Research Centre elected to the Canadian Academy of Health sciences
1/10/2007

The Montreal Heart Institute and the Université de Montréal mark the beginning of construction work on the Beaulieu-Saucier Pharmacogenomics Center
18/09/2007

The Montreal Heart Institute Foundation invests $60 million in the Montreal Heart Institute
14/09/2007

The Montral Heart Institute spearheads an international project on atrial fibrillation
20/08/2007

Scientists find major susceptibility genes for multiple sclerosis
30/07/2007

The Montreal Heart Institute’s ÉPIC Center launches a metabolic clinic with a program for diabetics
15/05/2007

Blood donnor clinic at the MHI's Epic Centre on May 16, 2007
30/04/2007

A consortium of researchers led by Dr. John D. Rioux from MHI, find major susceptibility genes for Crohn’s disease (PDF - 35K)
16/04/2007

Genome-wide association study identifies new susceptibility loci for Crohn disease and implicates autophagy in disease pathogenesis (PDF - 442K)
16/04/2007

MHI research features prominently at American College of Cardiology (PDF - 38K)
4/04/2007

The MHI recommends a Mediterranean-type diet to prevent specific risk factors related to cardiovascular disease (PDF - 103K)
28/02/2007

The Mediterranean-type diet pyramid (PDF - 1 044K)
28/02/2007

A canadian first at the MHI - Cryoablation used to successfully treat the most common form of arrhythmia (PDF - 24K)
7/02/2007

The work of Dr. John D. Rioux and his team makes the top ten discoveries list for 2006 in Québec
26/01/2007

L'éclosion de gastroentérite virale étant maîtrisée, les visites sont de nouveau permises à l’ICM (in French only) (PDF - 65K)
31/01/2007

First study on treating depression in heart patients (PDF - 43K)
23/01/2007