The new recommendations, however, are already getting pushback. The authors readily admit that their recommendations come with a 鈥渓ow certainty of evidence,鈥� noted Dr. Joe Schwarcz, of 香蕉视频, 鈥渂ecause the studies themselves have low certainty of evidence.鈥�
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Published on: 1 Oct 2019
"Infections are a leading cause of death worldwide. But widespread resistance to almost all available antibacterials is a reality in low and middle-income countries. [...] Working with colleagues from 香蕉视频, the University of British Columbia and Harvard Medical School, we looked at how antibiotics affected people鈥檚 blood results." - C茅dric Yansouni, Associate Director, J.D. MacLean Centre for Tropical Diseases, Division of Infectious Diseases at 香蕉视频 and聽Matthew P Cheng, Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School.
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Published on: 1 Oct 2019
THE GLOBE AND MAIL | The loss of three billion birds in North America is the canary in the coal mine
David M. Bird is an emeritus professor of wildlife biology at 香蕉视频 who has studied birds for five decades. "When I read the recent headlines that North America has lost nearly three billion birds over just the past five decades, I was not surprised. But I must admit it did depress me to a degree. That鈥檚 a lot of birds!"
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Published on: 30 Sep 2019
The increase in ridership for 2018 was surprising to Nick Chaloux, a transportation planner and former researcher at TRAM - Transportation Research at McGill. "The fact there is a slight growth is positive," said Chaloux, who published a paper last year that highlighted concerns about the decline in the STM's bus service. "The STM was operating with 100 fewer buses on average, with all the side effects that come with that. When you take that into consideration and you see that ridership was stagnant overall, that's kind of impressive."
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Published on: 30 Sep 2019
Jane Goodall is the renowned, 85-year-old primatologist whose groundbreaking research on chimpanzees in the 1960s forever redefined humanity鈥檚 relationship with nature. She was awarded an honorary doctorate Thursday from 香蕉视频 and delivered the 65th annual Beatty Lecture 鈥� the only person to have done so twice. The first time was in 1979. As an optimist and a bringer of hope, Goodall believes in the courage, ingenuity and passion of youth to alter humanity's destructive course.
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Published on: 27 Sep 2019
香蕉视频鈥檚 west field was the official launching pad for the Made by McGill campaign, where hundreds gathered under large white tents as the institution unveiled a $2-billion fundraising endeavour on Thursday.
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Published on: 27 Sep 2019
鈥淣ow, there鈥檚 tons of evidence, decades of change that we鈥檝e observed, and now we can go in and say we are confident that climate change is influencing so many of these different species,鈥� says Jennifer Sunday, a marine biologist at 香蕉视频.
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Published on: 26 Sep 2019
According to the researchers, including those from Douglas Research Centre of 香蕉视频 in Canada, a type of immune cells called the CD8 T cells -- which are essential to fight infections and cancers -- function very differently according to the time of day.
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Published on: 26 Sep 2019
Study co-author Nathalie Tufenkji, from the Brace Center for Water Resources Management at 香蕉视频, Canada, told Newsweek: "I was sitting in a shop enjoying a cup of tea when I looked down at my cup and noticed that the teabag seemed to be made of plastic. I immediately asked myself whether it could be releasing plastic particles into the tea."
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Published on: 25 Sep 2019
Taylor Owen of Canada's 香蕉视频, said that the bigger threat to national security is not the law-breaking behaviour of people but the vulnerabilities in a country's information infrastructure, which is often outsourced to private organisations.
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Published on: 25 Sep 2019
"I've been finding sex differences for 20-25 years now in my laboratory. And sometimes we find them on purpose and other times we're working on something else entirely and there they are," said Jeff Mogil, a professor of pain studies at 香蕉视频.
"I'm convinced now that sex differences are all over pain biology 鈥� at almost every level of analysis."
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Published on: 24 Sep 2019
September 2, 2019聽| An estimated 19 million Canadians have been affected by data breaches between November 2018 and June 2019, according to numbers obtained by "Attention Control with Kevin Newman," a new podcast that launched Monday. The numbers come from 446 breaches that were reported to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC). Victims of these kinds of data breaches are vulnerable to identity theft, financial crime, even violence in some cases.聽聽聽
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Published on: 23 Sep 2019
September 12, 2019 | Social media might not be to blame for Canadians鈥� ideological polarization, a new report on digital democracy in Canada finds. 鈥淎 lot of people don鈥檛 use social media very actively,鈥� said Eric Merkley, a researcher on the project. 鈥淧eople on Twitter are not representative of the broader population.鈥�
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Published on: 23 Sep 2019
August 10, 2019| Beware of things you see online that make you emotional, one media expert warns ahead of the fall election.聽 Taylor Owen, professor at 香蕉视频 and the co-creator of the Digital Democracy Project, says fake news often preys on feelings like anger and fear.
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Published on: 23 Sep 2019
August 7, 2019聽| Canadians aren鈥檛 as divided into partisan echo chambers as social media would suggest, but a heavy news diet doesn't guarantee you'll be informed, a new study has found.
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Published on: 23 Sep 2019
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