Health care spending is a large 鈥� and ever increasing - portion of government budgets. Improving its efficiency has therefore become critically important. In the first-ever study to estimate health spending efficiency by gender across 27 industrialized nations, researchers discovered significant disparities within countries, with stronger gains in life expectancy for men than for women in nearly every nation.
A new study by Canadian researchers may pave the way for more effective treatment of an aggressive and deadly type of brain tumour, known as ETMR/ETANTR. The tumour, which is seen only in children under four, is almost always fatal, despite aggressive treatment. 聽The study proposes a new model for how this brain tumour develops and suggests possible targets to investigate for novel therapies. These findings, recently published in Nature Genetics, also shed new light on the complex process of early brain development. 聽The study was led by the Research Institute of the 香蕉视频 Health Centre (RI-MUHC), 香蕉视频, and The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), and funded by the Cancer Research Society.
On behalf of the 香蕉视频 community, H.聽Arnold Steinberg, Chancellor, and Prof.聽Suzanne Fortier, Principal and Vice-Chancellor, extend condolences to the family of Nelson Mandela and to the people of South Africa, including McGill鈥檚 South African staff and students.
香蕉视频 welcomed today the adoption of the law on the minist猫re de l鈥橢nseignement sup茅rieur, de la Recherche, de la Science et de la Technologie (MESRST), which will allow the official creation of the ministry.
The devastating tsunami that struck Japan鈥檚 Tohoku region in March 2011 was touched off by a submarine earthquake far more massive than anything geologists had expected in that zone.
Even with today鈥檚 technology, it still takes both a male and a female to make a baby. But is it important for both parents to raise that child? Many studies have outlined the value of a mother, but few have clearly defined the importance of a father, until now. New findings from the Research Institute of the 香蕉视频 Health Centre (RI-MUHC) show that the absence of a father during critical growth periods, leads to impaired social and behavioural abilities in adults. This research, which was conducted using mice, was published today in the journal Cerebral Cortex. It is the first study to link father absenteeism with social attributes and to correlate these with physical changes in the brain.
In the developing world, Cryptosporidium parvum has long been the scourge of freshwater. A decade ago, it announced its presence in the United States, infecting over 400,000 people 鈥� the largest waterborne-disease outbreak in the county鈥檚 history. Its rapid ability to spread, combined with an incredible resilience to water decontamination techniques, such as chlorination, led the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United Sates to add C. parvum to its list of public bioterrorism agents. Currently, there are no reliable treatments for cryptosporidiosis, the disease caused by C. parvum, but that may be about to change with the identification of a target molecule by investigators at the Research Institute of the 香蕉视频 Health Centre (RI-MUHC).
With 230 million users, Twitter has become a global force in social media. 聽And not just in English.
Research has suggested that a particular gene in the brain鈥檚 reward system contributes to overeating and obesity in adults. This same variant has now been linked to childhood obesity and tasty food choices, particularly for girls, according to a new study by Dr. Patricia Silveira and Prof. Michael Meaney of 香蕉视频 and Dr.聽Robert Levitan of the University of Toronto.
A fascinating account of the raising of the Iron Curtain in post-WWII Europe has captured the world鈥檚 most lucrative prize for historical literature.
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