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