Education
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
The Gerald Bronfman Centre for Clinical Research in Oncology annual scientific lecture and award ceremony
On Monday, November 24, 2014, The Gerald Bronfman Centre for Clinical Research in Oncology, celebrating 23 years of excellence, held its 4th annual...
November 28, 2014
Fragile X study offers hope of new autism treatment
Drug reverses behavioural symptoms in mice with a version of autism People affected by a common inherited form of autism could be helped...
November 27, 2014
How do we make moral judgements?
IRCM ethics experts open the black box of moral intuitions In a target article published in the current issue of the American Journal...
November 25, 2014