Research
Our biological clock plays crucial role in healing from surgery
Effectiveness of anti-inflammatories following surgery depends on when you take them Source: The Newsroom If you have just had knee, shoulder or...
January 22, 2020
Can lithium halt progression of Alzheimer’s disease?
McGill researchers’ findings show that may be the case There remains a controversy in scientific circles today regarding the value of lithium therapy...
January 21, 2020
Future Ready: The Translation Trailblazer
McGill’s Nahum Sonenberg has established a new paradigm for understanding and treating human disease by discovering how errors in RNA translation lead to...
January 20, 2020
Discovering innovative ways to address autism
Healthcare that is informed by research and patient insights is the most effective way to advance knowledge This article was originally published on September...
January 20, 2020
Sexual dimorphism: The female hormone estrogen may facilitate the growth of liver metastases in non-sex-specific cancers
Source: MUHC It is known that the tumour microenvironment plays an important role in the progression of cancer. But could estrogen present...
January 16, 2020
Brain cancer: An intelligent molecule to fool and kill glioblastoma cells
Source: MUHC After seven years of collaboration, a team of researchers from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) has...
January 14, 2020
Meeting the global health challenge of worms that cause disease
Source: MUHC Canadians may bring parasitic intestinal worms back as unwanted souvenirs from travels abroad. But for more than one billion people...
January 14, 2020
Reintroducing brain plasticity lost in adulthood
These cells play a role in brain trauma, autism and schizophrenia. Inhibiting them could aid recovery Source: The Neuro During childhood, the human...
January 8, 2020
Umbrella of care: the Children’s and RVH work together for benefit of one young patient
Source: MUHC The design of the Glen site – where a pediatric and adult hospital live side-by-side – has led to a unique...
December 30, 2019
McGill study identifies new role of major genetic risk factor in Alzheimer’s disease
Untangling APOE ꜫ 4’s association to tau tangles Source: McGill Newsroom For years, physicians have been aware that patients carrying the apolipoprotein ꜫ4...
December 23, 2019
Neuro researcher motivated by her father’s story
Jo Anne Stratton first became interested in becoming a scientist after seeing her father’s disease progress to a point where he was living...
December 18, 2019
RI-MUHC-led study aims to help adolescents with type 1 diabetes transition to adult care
Group education visits offer peer support as well as interventions by nurses, MDs and dieticians Source: RI-MUHC In a recent issue of the...
December 18, 2019