Education
It’s all in a good night’s sleep: How quality of sleep impacts academic performance in children
Study finds link between sleep quality and grades of schoolchildren in math and languages Making sure school-aged kids get to sleep at a...
January 8, 2015
Having a hard time focusing?
Research identifies complex of neurons crucial to controlling attention Our ability to pay attention to certain things while ignoring distractions determines how good...
January 8, 2015
CONGRATULATIONS to members of the Faculty of Medicine community named to the Order of Canada!
Together with Chancellor Michael Meighen, Chancellor Emeritus Dick Pound and several other McGillians, seven members of the McGill Faculty of Medicine community were...
January 6, 2015
Discovering the Health Sciences
What do human anatomy, tele-health, family medicine, the evolution of HIV and medical imaging have in common? All were among the workshop topics...
December 28, 2014
Making a difference for Montreal’s homeless
“We wanted to do something on foot care because foot injuries, infections and ailments seem to be the number one reason for ER...
December 18, 2014
A face-to-face with our research leaders: Interview with Dr. Madhukar Pai
Courtesy of MUHC Interview with Dr. Madhukar Pai,Director of the McGill Global Health Programs ...
December 18, 2014
An important study for Parkinson’s disease
IRCM researchers uncover a mechanism regulating dopamine levels in the brain Researchers in Montréal led by Jacques Drouin, D.Sc., associate member of the Department...
December 11, 2014
IRCM researchers identify a protein that controls the “guardian of the genome”
A study sheds new light on a well-known mechanism required for the immune response A new study published in the scientific journal Proceedings of...
December 10, 2014
The artificial pancreas shown to improve the treatment of type 1 diabetes
The world’s first clinical trial comparing three alternative diabetes treatments The world’s first clinical trial comparing three alternative treatments for type 1 diabetes...
December 5, 2014
Obesity may shorten life expectancy up to 8 years
Canadian researchers put numbers on health risk Montreal, December 4, 2014 – ‘Tis the season to indulge. However, restraint may be best according...
December 5, 2014
Christopher Manfredi named new Provost
From the McGill Reporter McGill’s Board of Governors unanimously approved an Advisory Committee’s recommendation to appoint Professor Christopher Manfredi as the University’s new...
December 3, 2014
The war on HIV is another casualty of the Ebola crisis
Op-ed written by Dr. Mark Wainberg, professor and director, McGill University AIDS Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, originally appearing in the Globe and Mail...
December 1, 2014