For the fight against childhood cancer

Pediatric and young adult leukemia and lymphoma research in Quebec received a massive boost, following the Cole Foundation's announcement that it would provide...
May 17, 2011

Life-saving mutation discovery

Philippe Gros, Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, and his colleagues have found two distinct disease-causing mutations, a finding which helped save the...
May 6, 2011

Building new connections

By Sol Inés Peca In the 1980s, Dr. Albert Aguayo and his colleagues at McGill’s Centre for Research in Neuroscience were the first...
May 3, 2011

Publishing in the age of the digital doctor

VP-Dean Richard I. Levincontributes to the latest issue of Current Oncology, a Canadian based and Internationally distributed journal. "We are living in the...
April 29, 2011

Acquiring new words

By Marlene Busko To learn a new word, a child with autism might rely on strategies such as mapping it to a visually...
April 19, 2011

Filters that reduce ‘brain clutter’ identified

McGill researchers suggest malfunctions in neurons that filter visual information may be responsible for diseases such as ADHD and schizophrenia. Until now, it...
April 14, 2011

Breaking through prejudice

By Sol Inés Peca Loydie Jerome-Majewska’s days are filled with attempts to strike the perfect balance between writing grants and papers, running a...
April 10, 2011

Suicide isn’t painless: JGH tackles taboo subject

For generations, suicide and its symptoms were the health crisis no one wanted to talk about. Some of the top psychiatry researchers in...
April 5, 2011

Highlights of budget coverage

The last two weeks saw the tabling of two budgets, from both the Quebec and Federal governments. While a no-confidence vote has triggered...
March 29, 2011

The second century in modern medical education

VP-Dean Richard I. Levin contributes to the latest issue of Gravitas, official newsletter of the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC)....
March 29, 2011

Osler Library Newsletter

The source of health sciences history for McGill’s Faculty of Medicine In the latest issue of the Osler Library Newsletter, Dr. Peter Macklem,...
March 29, 2011

A world first in the fight against tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) continues to pose a major global health threat. Someone in the world is newly infected with TB bacteria every second. Every...
March 29, 2011