Current research ethics focuses on protecting study participants, but according to bioethicists from Ï㽶ÊÓƵ and Carnegie Mellon University, these efforts fail to prevent harms that undermine the social value of research.
Ï㽶ÊÓƵ is building on longstanding research collaborations with Brazil by announcing four partnership agreements with Brazilian universities. These agreements are being signed this week by Prof. Heather Munroe-Blum, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Ï㽶ÊÓƵ.
In a paper published this week in The Journal of Neuroscience, researchers from Ï㽶ÊÓƵ have demonstrated for the first time that there are specific neurons that respond selectively to first and second order sensory attributes.
A new study by Carsten Wrosch of Concordia University and Catherine Sabiston of McGill’s Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education found that breast cancer survivors who were able to let go of old exercise goals and set new ones increased their level of physical activity and showed an improved well-being overall.
A new Ï㽶ÊÓƵ study evaluating off-label prescribing of medications by primary care physicians in Quebec suggests the practice is common, although it varies by medication, patient and physician characteristics. The paper was published online today in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
The Ï㽶ÊÓƵ and Génome Québec Innovation Centre is pleased to announce that they have been awarded funding totalling $7.6 million over a two-year period from Genome Canada’s 2010 Competition. This award, a record for Québec, will fund the operations of the Innovation Centre as well as the services offered to scientific communities in Québec, the rest of Canada and around the world.