Dr. Lucie Côté honoured by the Canadian Association for Laboratory Animal Medicine

Dr. Chereen Collymore, President of CALAM, presents a certificate for the 2022 CALAM/ACMAL Veterinary Award to Dr. Lucie Côté of the Research Institute...
August 10, 2022

Overcome SYNGAP1, Wandoan Campdraft for a Cure & SynGAP Research Fund announce CAD $150,000 grant for small molecule translational research to Prof. Derek Bowie of McGill University in Canada

If we could develop an intervention to improve intellectual capacity in our patients it would improve the lives of patients, caregivers and their...
August 3, 2022

Asking about well-being vs. universal screening recommended to detect depression in pregnancy and after birth

New guideline from the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care Depression in pregnant and postpartum people is a serious issue. Rather than...
August 3, 2022

Anne Cockcroft: the Participatory Researcher

Anne Cockcroft, MD, is a clinician and public health researcher with a background in respiratory and occupational medicine in the UK. Currently based...
August 2, 2022

Study Challenges Dogma Behind Alzheimer’s Disease Drug Trials

Contrary to early studies, brain levels of enzymes that regulate DNA-folding drop as Alzheimer’s disease progresses, neuroscientists from the University of Pittsburgh, McGill...
August 2, 2022

A first large detailed description of the worldwide 2022 monkeypox outbreak

MUHC physicians made important contributions to a new article published in the New England Journal of Medicine A monkeypox outbreak is currently occurring...
July 28, 2022

RI-MUHC study shows association of low muscle mass with cognitive decline

A new publication in JAMA Network Open describes faster decline in cognitive executive function in older adults with low muscle mass Increasingly prevalent...
July 28, 2022

Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Institute Trainees Awarded 1.9M$ in Provincial and National Research Funding

Twenty-nine students and fellows were awarded 1.9M$ by the Fonds de Recherche du Québec (FRQ) and the Canadian Tri-Council Agencies. This year, the...
July 21, 2022

Better training needed to prevent misdiagnosis of pulmonary embolism, urges McGill expert

Despite the potential deadliness of a pulmonary embolism (a blood clot that travels to the lungs from the deep vein of a leg),...
July 21, 2022

Staying ahead of the curve with SeeSpine

Winners of the Hakim Family Innovation Prize at the McGill Clinical Innovation Competition develop a smartphone app to remotely monitor pediatric scoliosis The...
July 21, 2022

Another secret of fibromyalgia discovered in the microbiome

Researchers find alterations in gut bacteria and blood bile acids of women with fibromyalgia associated with the severity of their symptoms, and identify...
July 20, 2022

MUHC designated first provincial establishment for islet cell transplants for patients with type 1 diabetes

Non-invasive procedure allows patients to live without fear of severe hypoglycemia and even without insulin injections The McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) is...
July 7, 2022