A rapid home test for HIV, similar to early pregnancy tests, will be considered by a federal advisory committee on Tuesday, a move that many public health experts believe could eventually help calm Americans' fears of HIV, leading them to view it as just another serious chronic illness.
(Desautels Karl Moore): When I worked for IBM, the customer was always right. In today’s column I interview Vineet Nayar, CEO of HCL Technologies, one of the largest I.T. outsourcing firms in the world.
Maternity and parental benefits provided for the birth or adoption of a baby varies wildly from country to country. The United States is part of a very exclusive group - but not for the reasons you might suspect.
The saga surrounding the Train de l'Ouest and the airport shuttle took an even more bizarre turn this month when the Train de l'Ouest coalition flatout rejected Aéroports de Montréal's proposal to build an elevated light-rail link to the airport in the Highway 20/720 corridor.
The real dispute is over valid but competing priorities. On April 23, the science journal Nature published a paper titled "Comparing the yields of organic and conventional agriculture," by Verena Seufert et al.
A team of University of Ottawa researchers has solved the mystery of how our bodies adapt to low-oxygen environments, raising the prospect that life-threatening conditions such as cancer, stroke and heart disease could someday be successfully treated using a simple, antibiotic-like drug.
Acupuncture and hypnosis have been promoted as drug-free ways to help smokers kick the habit, and there is some evidence that they work, according to a research review that looked at 14 international studies.
Fides apparaît comme une figure emblématique de l'histoire de l'édition québécoise en raison de ses 75 ans, qui sont marqués par la variété de ses publications dans des domaines éclectiques.
(Chemistry professor Joe Schwarcz): Critics of homeopathy have been known to swallow entire bottles of homeopathic pills to make the point they contain nothing but sugar.
Professeur au Département de psychologie de l'Université McGill, Fred Genesee fait le point sur « les mythes et les malentendus entourant l'acquisition de deux langues chez l'enfant ».
Psychological and neuroscience research have chipped away at the credence we give to witness accounts, and shown how memories can be unwittingly manipulated. And yet eyewitness identification remains a very important piece of evidence in many criminal cases.
(Op-ed by Mark J. Yaffe, professor of family medicine at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ and St. Mary's Hospital Centre): Elder abuse is an important, frequently missed and under-reported cause of morbidity and mortality in older adults.
West Island homeowners have officially been notified that the emerald ash borer beetle is on its way, which could likely kill off thousands of trees in the coming years.
Karl Moore of the Desautels Faculty of Management at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, Talking Management for The Globe and Mail speaks to General Dean Milner who was Canada’s top officer in Afghanistan until recently, and is now Number Two at the III Corps, Fort Hood, Texas.
(Gil Troy, history professor at McGill): ...For the first time in my life, I entered a crowded room full of partying people enjoying themselves and not really thinking about who they might bump into - literally - while I was hobbling on crutches.