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Published on: 9 Apr 2018
By Christina Kozakiewicz, Ingram School of Nursing
On World Health Day April 7, Jodi Tuck, like many of her nurse colleagues, will be celebrating the various ways nursing makes a difference in people鈥檚 lives across the globe; in providing care, conducting research to drive evidenced-based practice forward, and effecting change in policy.
Published on: 5 Apr 2018
Cosmologist Jonathan Sievers and international-relations scholar Jennifer Welsh will become Canada 150 Research Chairs at 香蕉视频. The appointments were among the oday at the听Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Quebec,听by Minister of Science Kirsty Duncan.听听
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Published on: 29 Mar 2018
Highly complex interactions among roots, fungi and bacteria underlie the ability of some trees to clean polluted land, according to a novel study by bioinformatics and plant-biology experts from 香蕉视频 and Universit茅 de Montr茅al.
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Published on: 28 Mar 2018
Learning to become self-sufficient and responsible is part of life鈥檚 journey through the teen and young adult years. Mistakes are often made, and lessons are learned. However, for young kidney-graft patients, any mistake or failure in keeping to their strict immunosuppressive therapy can lead to tragic results. In fact, low-adherence to medication remains a major contributor to the high level of organ rejection in this age group.
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Published on: 27 Mar 2018
Le prix, d'une valeur de 50听000听$, r茅compense le pionnier de la recherche pour la d茅tection et la pr茅vention de l'ob茅sit茅 abdominale
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Published on: 26 Mar 2018
$50,000 award recognizes research pioneer who screened for abdominal obesity and acted to prevent it
Montreal - March 22, 2018
香蕉视频, in association with Manulife and the McGill Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics (MCCHE), is pleased to announce that Dr. Jean-Pierre Despr茅s, Professor at the Department of Kinesiology, Faculty of Medicine at Universit茅 Laval and pioneer in developing screening techniques for visceral obesity, is the winner of the 2018 Manulife Prize for the Promotion of Active Health.
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Published on: 26 Mar 2018
Employee wellness programs in the workplace have been shown to work with some success in the United States, particularly when participation is tied to substantial incentives like a reduction in health insurance premiums for participating employees. In Canada, as a result of the publicly funded health care system, incentives for employers and their employees to participate in such programs are primarily focused on the goal of becoming healthier -- and the programs are few and far between, despite evidence showing their effectiveness.
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Published on: 23 Mar 2018
The Bank of Canada has announced that , Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar at 香蕉视频, was selected as the recipient of this year鈥檚 Governor鈥檚 Award. Professor Poschke is an increasingly prominent member of the Canadian economics community. His research, which focuses on inequality and economic growth, has been published in some of the top journals in macroeconomics.
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Published on: 23 Mar 2018
A team from the Research Institute of 香蕉视频 Health Centre (RI-MUHC) in Montreal has joined forces with researchers at Johns Hopkins to bring screening and early detection of ovarian and uterine cancers one step closer to clinical implementation. Researchers developed a test that provides a safe and minimally invasive method for earlier diagnosis of ovarian and endometrial cancers.
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Published on: 21 Mar 2018
Bad sleep habits in children begin earlier than many experts assume. That鈥檚 the takeaway from a new study led by 香蕉视频 researchers. The findings suggest that official sleep guidelines for young school children should be revisited 鈥� and that parents ought to maintain firm bedtime rules throughout children鈥檚 primary-school years.
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Published on: 20 Mar 2018
2017 Qu茅bec Science Discovery of the Year Award goes to the cancer-detection probe developed by听Kevin Petrecca and Fr茅d茅ric Leblond
Qu茅bec Science magazine鈥檚 25-year tradition continues: every fall, a jury comprised of researchers and journalists selects the top 10 most impressive discoveries in Quebec in the past year and the public is asked to vote to select the winner. This year, a cancer-detection probe was chosen by nearly a third of approximately 4,400 votes cast in the 2017 Discovery of the Year contest.
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Published on: 19 Mar 2018
Wild birds that are more clever than others at foraging for food 听have different levels of a neurotransmitter receptor that has been linked with intelligence in humans, according to a study led by 香蕉视频 researchers. 听The findings could provide insight into the evolutionary mechanisms affecting cognitive traits in a range of animals.
The study, published in Science Advances, was conducted by McGill biologists Jean-Nicolas Audet and Louis Lefebvre, in collaboration with researchers from Duke and Harvard universities.
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Published on: 14 Mar 2018
Women scientists and clinicians are creators and changemakers, expanding the boundaries of human knowledge
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The Neuro has launched Neuro XXceptional - an exciting new year-long video series featuring women who tell us what drove them to become scientists and clinicians, and what they love about their work. At The Neuro, these exceptional professionals are improving the lives of patients, helping us understand how the brain works and how to treat neurological disease.
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Published on: 8 Mar 2018
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