Several new medicines have been found to be more effective than traditional ones used to treat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), according to a new international collaborative study led by Dr. Dick Menzies, senior scientist at the Research Institute of the 香蕉视频 Health Centre (RI-MUHC) in Montreal. These findings precipitated a complete overhaul of worldwide TB treatment guidelines, with the results of this work published today in the British medical journal The Lancet.
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Published on: 7 Sep 2018
Fewer than half of adults and children experiencing food-induced anaphylaxis use their epinephrine autoinjector (EAI) before being treated at a hospital emergency room, according to a new Canadian study.
鈥淚t鈥檚 a disappointing reality that epinephrine is seriously underused,鈥� says lead researcher Dr. Moshe Ben-Shoshan, a pediatric allergist and immunologist at the Research Institute of the 香蕉视频 Health Centre (RI-MUHC) and at the Montreal Children鈥檚 Hospital, and an assistant professor of Pediatrics at 香蕉视频.
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Published on: 7 Sep 2018
By Diane Weidner, Steinberg Centre for Simulation and Interactive Learning
It鈥檚 not every day that an astronaut visits our Centre! On December 20, 2018, Canadian Space Agency astronaut David Saint-Jacques will fly to the International Space Station on聽his first mission. During his assignment, he will conduct a series of聽, robotics tasks and test new technologies.
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Published on: 4 Sep 2018
Preterm birth is a major global public health problem. Every year, 15 million babies are born prematurely and many will suffer from neurodegenerative disorders, including cerebral palsy, learning disabilities, impaired vision, and behavioural problems.
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Published on: 4 Sep 2018
Miasya Bulger and Raphael Hotter have been named McGill鈥檚 recipients of the prestigious Schulich Leaders Scholarship.
This year, out of a pool of 350,000 potential candidates across Canada, 1,400 students were nominated, of which 50 received this celebrated award.
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Published on: 30 Aug 2018
The largest study ever to investigate the genetics of osteoporosis and fracture risk determined that only two examined factors 鈥� bone mineral density (BMD) and muscle strength 鈥� play a potentially causal role in the risk of suffering osteoporotic fracture, a major health problem affecting more than 9 million people worldwide very year. Other clinical risk factors like vitamin D levels and calcium intake, historically considered to be crucial mediators of fracture, were not found to directly predispose people in the general population to fracture. This research was published in the BMJ.
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Published on: 30 Aug 2018
When it comes to weight gain, the problem may be mostly in our heads, and our genes
Clinicians should consider how the way we think can make us vulnerable to obesity, and how obesity is genetically intertwined with brain structure and mental performance, according to new research.
Published on: 28 Aug 2018
PHOTO: In a series of experiments, NYU researchers tested how much we believe different traits co-occur in other people's personalities鈥攆or instance, how much we think competence co-occurs with friendliness in others. They then used a method able to visualize the subjects鈥� mental image of a personality trait, allowing them to see if subjects who believe competent people tend to also be friendly have mental images of a competent face and friendly face that are physically more resembling. (Image courtesy of Ryan Stolier and Jonathan Freeman, New York University.)
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Published on: 27 Aug 2018
Due to processes occurring over vast ranges of scale, from fast to slow and from small to large, extreme weather and climate events aren鈥檛 as rare as scientists have thought 鈥� and that could complicate efforts to determine when extreme events signal perilous climate change, according to a new analysis published in the journal Scientific Reports.
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Published on: 23 Aug 2018
Deforestation is suspected to have contributed to the mysterious collapse of Mayan civilization more than 1,000 years ago. A new study shows that the forest-clearing also decimated carbon reservoirs in the tropical soils of the Yucatan peninsula region long after ancient cities were abandoned and the forests grew back.
The findings, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, underscore how important soils and our treatment of them could be in determining future levels of greenhouse gases in the planet鈥檚 atmosphere.
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Published on: 20 Aug 2018
New technology developed by a team of 香蕉视频 scientists shows potential to streamline the analysis of proteins, offering a quick, high volume and cost-effective tool to hospitals and research labs alike.
Proteins found in blood provide scientists and clinicians with key information on our health. These biological markers can determine if a chest pain is caused by a cardiac event or if a patient has cancer.
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Published on: 13 Aug 2018
By Amanda Testani
On August 10, the announced the recipients of the 2018 NSERC Strategic Partnership Grants program. Eight McGill-led projects are receiving more than $4.4 million to collaborate with a supporting organization on strategic research in hopes of enhancing Canada鈥檚 economy, society, and environment within the next 10 years.
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Published on: 10 Aug 2018
People in Nordic countries, North America, Australia, and New Zealand have the best spatial navigational abilities, according to a new study led by UCL and the University of East Anglia.
Researchers assessed data from over half a million people in 57 countries who played a specially-designed mobile game, which has been developed to aid understanding into spatial navigation, a key indicator in Alzheimer鈥檚 disease.
With so many people taking part the team were able to reveal that spatial navigation ability across all countries declines steadily across adulthood.
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Published on: 9 Aug 2018
Online 鈥渃itizen science鈥� data initiatives may be able to help map the distribution of rare species in the wild, according to a study published August 8 in the open access journal by Yifu Wang of 香蕉视频 and colleagues.聽
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Published on: 8 Aug 2018
Treatment of latent tuberculosis is set to transform after a pair of studies from the Research-Institute of the 香蕉视频 Health Centre (RI-MUHC) revealed that a shorter treatment was safer and more effective in children and adults compared to the current standard. These findings are published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Published on: 2 Aug 2018
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