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Total recall: the science behind it
MUHC-led study identifies new player in brain function and memory Is it possible to change the amount of information the brain can store?...
November 13, 2014
McGill signs five agreements during China trip
By McGill Reporter Staff Joining Quebec Premier Phillippe Couillard on a mission to China at the end of October, McGill’s Vice-Dean of Life...
November 6, 2014
McGill again to play host to Remembrance Day ceremonies
By Doug Sweet A century ago, student soldiers, alongside their staff and faculty colleagues, marched and paraded on the lower field of the...
November 6, 2014
November is Osteoporosis Awareness Month
by Michelle Wall, Research Assistant at the RI-MUHC “Porous” is not a word that comes to mind when you think of bones but...
November 5, 2014
Congratulations Fall 2014 graduates!
Fall convocation for Health Sciences students at McGill University was held in the afternoon of October 29th at Place des Arts, in downtown Montreal....
October 31, 2014
McGill tops Maclean’s university ranking
Ranked first for tenth consecutive year among medical-doctoral universities in 2015 Maclean's University Rankings For the tenth year in a row, Maclean’s has...
October 30, 2014
Study sheds light on genetic architecture of kidney cancer
Research reveals link between renal cell carcinoma and exposure to aristolochic acid A new study on a large cohort of kidney cancer patients...
October 29, 2014
A key to aortic valve disease prevention: Lowering cholesterol early
Montreal, Monday 27, 2014 – An international research team led by the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) and Lund...
October 27, 2014
World Polio Day – October 24
Video: http://youtu.be/kIuXn31RmiM Until recently, polio was universally dreaded. Epidemics struck leaving thousands of people - usually children - paralyzed or seriously disabled. Only...
October 24, 2014
Discovery of a new therapeutic target to prevent the invasion of cancer cells
RCM researchers explain molecular events that promote the spread of breast cancer A team of researchers at the IRCM, led by Jean-François Côté...
October 23, 2014
New funding to boost mental health research
Gift from the Irving Ludmer Family Foundation strengthens unique McGill/Neuro partnership with the Douglas Mental Health University Institute, the Jewish General Hospital What...
October 23, 2014
Discovery of a new mechanism that can lead to blindness
IRCM researchers uncover the important role of a protein found in visual cells An important scientific breakthrough by a team of IRCM researchers...
October 23, 2014