Education
McGill inaugurates new Microbiome and Disease Tolerance Centre
On February 6, 2014 McGill’s Department of Immunology celebrated the inauguration of the new Microbiome and Disease Tolerance Centre (MDTC), an advanced research...
February 7, 2014
$1M for Asthma research
(Chicoutimi) Years of effort have enabled UQAC researcher Catherine Laprise, PhD in the genetics of asthma, to be rewarded by being given a...
February 5, 2014
Doctors say that a majority of Quebecers take cholesterol pills for nothing
Doctors denounce the proliferation of prescriptions for cholesterol pills "It has become like a candy dish," denounces a doctor who wants to remain...
February 5, 2014
A new way to combat suicide
A leader in the field of suicide in Quebec for 30 years, Dr. Suzanne Lamarre, suggests a new vision of the problem. For...
February 5, 2014
Five maps that put cancer’s global spread into focus
Cancer’s global death toll is expected to increase at an “alarming pace” over the next two decades, rising to 22 million new cases...
February 5, 2014
Get ready to Speak Up!
Hospital to educate public on patient safety Montreal, January 31, 2014 – More than breast cancer, motor vehicle accidents and AIDS combined, preventable adverse...
February 1, 2014
One step closer towards a satellite faculty of medicine
A first cohort of 24 students could make their entrance to the satellite faculty of medicine in Outaouais beginning in September 2016, according...
January 31, 2014
Brain of famous amnesiac “H.M.” yields new insights into memory
A new study shows that in death as in life, the man who lived 55 years virtually unable to form new memories deepened...
January 29, 2014
“I had a heart attack at 39”
Survey suggests heart health mistakenly seen as boomer issue Kerrie Lee Brown wasn’t even 40 when the heart attack hit. The Toronto woman...
January 29, 2014
Doctors press Quebec to revise the Tobacco Act
Infuriated by the Government's inaction, physicians from the McGill University Health Centre challenge Réjean Hébert, Quebec's Minister of Health, pressing him to proceed...
January 27, 2014
Diabetes: We are in it together
Living in a household implies sharing duties and responsibilities but it could also imply sharing your diabetes. Living in a household implies sharing...
January 24, 2014
McGill says applying Bill 60 would be impossible
It would be impossible to apply the Quebec government’s proposed ban on the wearing of conspicuous religious symbols by public employees in a...
January 22, 2014