The elderly still take too many potentially inappropriate drugs
Study shows that despite some improvements, potentially inappropriate medications are still heavily prescribed to seniors in Canada and some are on the rise In Canada, prescribing potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs)—drugs whose harms may outweigh their benefits, which may be ineffective, or for which a safer alternative exists—remains very common among…
Zackie Achmat is the winner of the inaugural Paul Farmer Award for Global Health Equity
The McGill School of Population and Global Health is pleased to announce Zackie Achmat from South Africa as the winner of the inaugural...
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Looking back at the 2024 edition of the McGill Biomedical Research Accelerator
From May to August, undergraduate students had the opportunity to work with world-renowned biomedical researchers and gain experience in professional laboratories and facilities...
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“It opened my eyes to different specialties”: McGill Summer School leaves impression on international medical students
The fourth edition of the McGill Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences’ (FMHS) Summer Program for International Medical Students was held earlier this...
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Three FMHS professors honoured by the Royal Society of Canada
Newest Fellows and Members to the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists recognized for scholarly, research and artistic excellence Ten McGill professors,...
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A donation like no other
Students in McGill’s Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences learn some of their most important lessons in the Anatomy Lab, thanks to individuals...
September 12, 2024
McGill researchers introduce a scalable, cost-effective solution for single-cell profiling
An innovative computational tool, scSemiProfiler, makes powerful single-cell sequencing technology more accessible for health research Single-cell sequencing is a breakthrough technology in biological...
September 12, 2024