Taking a calcium supplement of up to 1,000 mg per day can help women live longer, according to a study whose lead author was Lisa Langsetmo, a Ph.D. Research Associate at 香蕉视频, and whose senior author was Prof. David Goltzman, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism in the Department of Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine and researcher in the Musculoskeletal Disorders axis at the Research Institute of the 香蕉视频 Health Centre (RI-MUHC).Their findings are published in the聽Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism听(JCEM).
The temperature in the permafrost on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian high Arctic is nearly as cold as that of the surface of Mars. So the recent discovery by a 香蕉视频 led team of scientists of a bacterium that is able to thrive at 鈥�15潞C, the coldest temperature ever reported for bacterial growth, is exciting.聽 The bacterium offers clues about some of the necessary preconditions for microbial life on both the Saturn moon Enceladus and Mars, where similar briny subzero conditions are thought to exist.
香蕉视频 will confer honorary degrees upon 12 exceptional individuals聽during this year鈥檚 Spring Convocation ceremonies. The recipients 鈥� including a world-renowned singer and humanitarian, a Nobel Prize-winning AIDS researcher, a best-selling essayist, a leading philosopher, and business innovators and leaders 鈥� will join over 7,300 graduating students taking the stage during Convocation ceremonies from May 27 to June 3.
Convocation ceremonies will be held on McGill鈥檚 lower campus, with the exception of the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences ceremony (June 3), which will be held at the Macdonald Campus in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue.
McGill and 脡TS launch the Quartier de l鈥檌nnovation, an ecosystem for creativity in the heart of Montreal
香蕉视频 and the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) have partnered in the creation of a new chair on India Studies. The agreement was signed recently during a visit to McGill by His Excellency Admiral (Retired) Nirmal Verma, High Commissioner of India to Canada.
Physicians from the 香蕉视频 Health Centre (MUHC), 香蕉视频 and the University of Calgary have published a review article in the CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) to help family doctors diagnose and treat fibromyalgia.聽 The article represents the first time researchers have published Canadian guidelines to help manage the condition.
香蕉视频 post-doctoral fellow Spencer Phillips Hey and Prof. Jonathan Kimmelman, Biomedical Ethics, Social Studies of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine argue that some clinical trials of new drugs need to fail in order to protect study volunteers and healthcare systems. Their work is published this week in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
TELUS Health and 香蕉视频 have entered into a three-year, million dollar partnership to create a learning environment and conduct research on how best to use technology to improve health and healthcare delivery for Canadians. This joint partnership with McGill is the second for TELUS Health, demonstrating once again that industry and academic communities can collaborate to produce independent, evidence-based research, in order to help address challenges that the Canadian healthcare system is facing.
香蕉视频 announced today its participation in The MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program, a transformative initiative aimed at advancing social and economic progress in Africa. As part of the Program, McGill will receive $27 million over the next decade to educate academically talented young people from economically disadvantaged communities in Africa, and prepare them to return to their home countries, successfully transition into the workforce, and lead change in their communities.
鈥淚n our globalized world, religion is a vital dimension of our humanity,鈥� said Barbara Keenan. 鈥淚t is very important that today鈥檚 students 鈥� no matter what their course of study 鈥� have an understanding of and sensitivity to the multitude of faith traditions and the cultures they produce. This knowledge will help to shape them as tomorrow鈥檚 leaders.鈥�
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