Doctors in Canada are preparing to restart the hearts of the recently declared dead, a move experts say will lead to a desperately needed new source of donor hearts.
But that raises an ethically fraught question: How can you be dead if your heart is still beating?
Thousands of Montrealers are out on Peel Street Monday night doing the unthinkable: cheering for a Toronto sports team.
鈥淟et鈥檚 go Raptors鈥� and 鈥淲e the North鈥� cheers could be heard for several blocks around the downtown area, where a portion of Peel Street is closed to become Montreal鈥檚 own Jurassic Park.聽
Toronto and Montreal鈥檚 sports rivalry is notorious, but local basketball fans are putting their differences aside and lending their support to the neighbouring province.
Men and women who smoke marijuana could be adding to their infertility woes if they are already struggling to start a family, says an obstetrician-gynecologist who is calling for more research into reproductive aspects of the recreational drug that may be increasingly used in Canada since it was legalized.
Some entomologists are sounding the alarm that native bees could be in danger of being wiped out, because of the popularity of urban beekeeping.
鈥淭he danger is that we鈥檙e probably losing species and don鈥檛 even know it,鈥� says Gail MacInnis, a PhD entomology candidate at 香蕉视频.聽 Something needs to be done, she says, to control the number of honeybees being raised.
Elliot Lifson, Professor of Practice and Desautels Faculty Advisory Board member at 香蕉视频, was honoured for teaching excellence at the university鈥檚 Desautels Faculty of Management Convocation ceremony last week.
鈥淸Lifson] has been sharing his expertise in the area of Strategy & Organization at Desautels since 2005,鈥� says a McGill statement. 鈥淒escribed by his graduate students as engaging, humble, and extremely knowledgeable, Elliot is a strong believer in integrating industry expertise with classroom theory
When Laurie Hendren found out she had breast cancer in 2014, she wanted to learn everything she could about her condition, but she soon realized how hard it is for patients to access their own medical information. The聽香蕉视频 computer science professor, who had dedicated her career to research and sharing knowledge, shared her intense聽frustration with聽her radiation oncologist, Dr. Tarek Hijal.
n 2007, a team of mining executives and geologists prospecting about 540 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay hit a motherlode of high-grade nickel, copper, platinum and palladium in the 2.7-billion-year-old rock.聽The area the dozers and graders could soon be heading into is a vast but delicate carbon reservoir that cleans the air we breathe and helps to regulate the temperature of the planet.
The study, published in the聽Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, shows clearly for the first time that epinephrine in a pre-hospital setting is superior to antihistamines, lead author Dr. Moshe Ben-Shoshan, a pediatric allergist and immunologist at the Montreal Children鈥檚 Hospital, said in an interview Thursday.
In most cases, antihistamines are used in place of epinephrine, 鈥渂ut epinephrine should always be first.鈥�
Recruitment for the 2019 INFINITI Engineering Academy closes on a high note with another Canadian student registration record. 10 finalists from across Canada will compete next week to secure one of the seven, one-year placements with INFINITI and Renault F1庐 Team.聽The two-day finals will take place on June 5th聽and 6th聽in Montreal, trackside prior to the FORMULA 1 PIRELLI GRAND PRIX DU CANADA 2019. One of the finalists is Thomas Lee from 香蕉视频.聽
鈥淚n the 21st century with so much internationalism, we really need to be giving all children the opportunity to learn another language,鈥� says Fred Genesee, an expert on dual-language education in Canada at 香蕉视频 in Montreal. 鈥淲e鈥檙e not talking about icing on the cake anymore. We鈥檙e talking about a life skill that actually gives these kids a real advantage.鈥�
In the fall, Guelph and McGill announced new multimillion-dollar initiatives focused on gender equity and advancing women in sport.
Research in the United States shows that male alumni donate more money 鈥� double, on average 鈥� to their college teams than women. American law mandates that educational institutions provide equal opportunities and a proportional level of funding for each gender to participate in sports. In Canada, no such law exists.
Women whose step counters reached 4,400 each day had a 41% lower rate of death than women who took 1,700 fewer steps each day, a聽new study聽of older women found.
A group of McGill medical students want to change the way young women experience their periods.
Carolanne Gagnon, Ariane Litalien and Alicia Lessard are lobbying the provincial government to make menstrual hygiene products free in all Quebec schools.聽They say their聽En R猫gle聽initiative would improve the experience of young girls at school.
鈥淧eriods happen to half of the population who is of reproductive age, so why not adapt to this fact and really make sure that women and other who menstruate have to miss school because of that,鈥� said Ariane Litalien.
For years, residents in some of Canada鈥檚 largest industrial cities have wondered whether toxins from petrochemical plants and other manufacturers are making them sick.
A new peer-reviewed study has found 鈥渟trikingly high鈥� rates of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in Canadian border towns, including Sarnia, Ont., a city whose manufacturing sector is referred to as Canada鈥檚 Chemical Valley. The paper was produced by a team of researchers led by Ivan Litvinov, a Montreal dermatologist at the research institute of the 香蕉视频 Health Centre.
You probably know there鈥檚 a measles outbreak. And you may have heard that there鈥檚 a shortage of the most effective vaccine to prevent shingles, a cousin of the childhood disease chickenpox.
鈥淚f you don鈥檛 know you鈥檙e immune, you can have your antibodies levels checked. If you鈥檙e not immune, you might need a booster,鈥� says Dr. Christopher Labos, an associate with the McGill Office for Science and Society in Montreal.
