Secrets in the Lungs
March 18, 2021 It’s what we picture when we think of COVID-19 taking hold: breathing problems severe enough to require treatment with oxygen or even a ventilator. While it’s clear COVID-19 attacks the lungs, the question remains: why do some people become so sick, and...
A Plateful of Grateful
March 9, 2021 “Food equals gratitude.” Though not the official slogan for the partnership between MITT’s Culinary Arts and Design program and St. Boniface Hospital, the phrase captures the essence of a collaboration to support health-care workers on the front lines....
Sharing for Women’s Heart Health
February 16, 2021 On a day when many Canadians donned red in support of women’s heart health, Kendra Rempel and Patti LeBlanc, former St. Boniface Hospital cardiac patients, reflected on how their spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) heart attacks have...
Thanks from the heart
January 29, 2021 In recognition of heart month this February and the 150th Anniversary of the Hospital, Winnipeg sculptor Gary Tessier, with his son, André Vrignon-Tessier, and wife, Madeleine Vrignon, were commissioned to design and create a snow sculpture at St....