Her heart matters

Her heart matters

A new grassroots campaign is saying that it’s time to stop Canadian women from dying unnecessarily. Heart disease is the number one killer of women worldwide and it affects women of all ages. Wear Red Canada Day, organized by the Canadian Women’s Heart Health Alliance...
Warmest wishes!

Warmest wishes!

St. Boniface Hospital Foundation will close for the holidays at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, December 24, 2019 and re-open on Thursday, January 2, 2020 at 8:30 a.m. To give a gift over the holidays, you can: Donate here  Drop off your donation in our secure mail slot at...
A hearty response to an urgent need

A hearty response to an urgent need

Thanks to a $2.5 million donation from The Molson Foundation, several major research projects on women’s cardiovascular health will be made possible. These collaborative research projects between St. Boniface Hospital and the Montreal Heart Institute will allow many...
Food for Thought

Food for Thought

If you believe poor health simply comes down to bad genetic luck, researchers at the Canadian Centre for Agri-Food Research in Health and Medicine (CCARM) will give you food for thought. “Probably about 80 to 90 per cent of heart disease, for example, comes down to...
Marking new territory in autism research

Marking new territory in autism research

Family honours daughter and son with a $300,000 donation enabling the project A new line of research to better classify autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is off the ground thanks to a $300,000 donation from the Dyck family, through The Kali Dyck Foundation. The Dyck...