IRCM Researchers are Among Five Teams in Canada to Receive Funding from Brain Canada

A group of Montréal researchers is one of five teams in Canada to receive a grant from The W. Garfield Weston Foundation -...
May 1, 2013

Syndrome de « l’œil paresseux » : nouvelle approche thérapeutique prometteuse

L'amblyopie est la cause la plus courante de déficience visuelle chez l'enfant; touchant jusqu'à 3 pour cent de la population. Une équipe de...
April 23, 2013

“Lazy eye” disorder – a promising new therapeutic approach

Amblyopia is the most common cause of visual impairment in childhood, affecting up to 3 per cent of the population. A research team...
April 23, 2013

Tackling Childhood Obesity Through Sport

It’s no secret that child obesity is on the rise. In Canada, over 26 per cent of minors are either overweight or obese—that’s...
April 12, 2013

Quebec sees renewed focus on family medicine

With pressure from the Quebec government to produce an equal number of medical residents in family medicine and specialties by 2014-15, McGill University’s...
April 12, 2013

Control your blood pressure, control your life

Hypertension this year’s theme for World Health Day The World Health Organization (WHO) celebrated its birthday on April 7 by putting the focus...
April 5, 2013

Could Self-Testing Help Overcome HIV/AIDS Epidemic?

Having people test themselves for HIV is effective and could help bring the worldwide HIV/AIDS epidemic under control, a new study contends. The...
April 4, 2013

Accreditation of the MSc(A) Direct-entry program in Nursing

I am very proud and pleased to announce that the Ingram School of Nursing has received confirmation from the Canadian Association of Schools...
April 4, 2013

Major advance in understanding risky but effective Multiple Sclerosis treatment

Powerful treatment improves patients’ lives and provides new insight into mechanisms of the disease A new study by Multiple Sclerosis researchers at three...
April 4, 2013

The American Journal of Human Genetics Profile on Dr. Clarke Fraser

The American Journal of Human Genetics is a medical journal in the field of human genetics. Since its inception in 1948 by the...
April 3, 2013

The RI-MUHC and McGill at the forefront in the fight against tuberculosis

March 24 was World Tuberculosis Day. To mark the occasion, more than 100 people attended a Research Institute of the McGill University Health...
March 28, 2013

‘Exciting’ experiment sees Montreal doctors use webcams to administer anaesthesia to patients in Italy

As the 20 patients in Pisa, Italy, waited to undergo thyroid surgery, they descended into unconsciousness thanks to a cocktail of anaesthetic drugs...
March 25, 2013