Education
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
Nominate someone for an Ovation
The nomination process for the 2011 Dean of Medicine Awards of Excellence has officially begun! The goal of this vital program is to...
March 29, 2011
Shedding light on late-winter blues
By Sol Inés Peca The days may be getting longer and spring may have started, but it still looks and feels like winter...
March 22, 2011
One giant leap for the Penfield dissector
McGill Faculty of Medicine alumnus and astronaut Dr. Robert Thirsk was recently at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital - The Neuro (MNI),...
March 22, 2011
Uncovering the brain’s role in food and obesity
The McGill World Platform for Health and Economic Convergence (MWP), in partnership with the UK’s Science and Innovation Network, the Douglas Mental Health...
March 15, 2011
Earthquake in Japan
Following the devastating earthquake and tsunami on the Northern Pacific coast of Japan on March 11, many members of our McGill family may...
March 15, 2011
Improving new drug predictions
It’s all too familiar: researchers announce the discovery of a new drug that eradicates disease in animals. Then, a few years later, the...
March 9, 2011
Braving the cold
By Sol Inés Peca Montreal winters may be icy, cold and tiring, but the frigid and remote Antarctic can be downright brutal. Third-year...
March 8, 2011