Research
A medical puzzle solved
Along with her colleagues from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) and McGill University, Dr. Nada Jabado, a pediatric research scientist...
April 16, 2019
Ottawa invests $1.2M in CLSA research projects
Researchers will use data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging to study how to support the healthy aging of Canadians Source: McGill...
April 12, 2019
Increase in children and teens seen in ERs for suicide attempts and suicidal thoughts
Source: MUHC A new study led by a research team at the Montreal Children’s Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre (MCH-MUHC) shows...
April 12, 2019
Anti-inflammatory drugs ineffective for prevention of Alzheimer’s disease
Study sheds light on longstanding debate Researchers have known for decades that inflammation accompanies Alzheimer’s disease (AD) brain lesions. Several early studies suggested...
April 5, 2019
Jewish General Hospital pioneering new clinical trial to study treating breast cancer without surgery
The Jewish General Hospital is the first hospital in Canada to enroll a patient in an international clinical trial to determine whether some...
April 5, 2019
Predicting Breast Cancer Metastasis to the Lung and Liver with Biomarkers
By Josh Kaiser For about 20% to 30% of breast cancer patients, their primary tumour will spread to other organs such as the...
April 4, 2019
Accelerating drug discovery with Open Science
The Neuro's drug discovery initiative supports research by developing assays shared with the scientific community Source: The Neuro In the past 40 years,...
April 3, 2019
Using laser light to study how epilepsy arises in the healthy brain
Source: The Newsroom Scientists at McGill University have developed a new method to study how seizures arise in the healthy brain. Using laser...
March 29, 2019
NeuroHub unlocks data for brain research
NeuroHub will provide researchers with powerful open source tools and software to explore multi-dimensional brain and health data. Source: Jennifer Marrow, Le Neuro...
March 27, 2019
Obesity, but not age at puberty, associated with increased risk of developing multiple sclerosis
An extensive genetic study conducted at the Lady Davis Institute finds that obesity, rather than early puberty, may be influencing increasing rates of...
March 27, 2019
Anti-TB drugs can increase risk of TB re-infection
Source: MUHC Current treatments for tuberculosis (TB) are very effective in controlling TB infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). They don’t, however, always prevent reinfection....
March 27, 2019
Interdisciplinary research team led by RI-MUHC scientists receives Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation funding
Project aims to improve quality of life after cardiac surgery Source: RI-MUHC Thanks to new funding from the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation announced...
March 27, 2019