Seven CIHR funded projects at McGill and the Research Institute of the Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Health Centre to investigate impacts of vaccine hesitancy, health-care shortages, work-life imbalance for children, youth, and families in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published on: 10 Dec 2021
A new study, which is published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Pediatrics, and was led by researchers from King’s College London, Harvard University, University of Bristol and Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, examined more than 13,000 Belarussian teenagers enrolled in the PROmotion of Breastfeeding Intervention Trial (PROBIT) and found a 54% reduction in cases of eczema amongst teenagers whose mothers had received support to breastfeed exclusively.
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Published on: 13 Nov 2017
Adolescence can be a turbulent period of life, with struggles to establish autonomy, identity issues and risk-taking behaviours. For young adults with a chronic illness such as type 1 diabetes, this transition phase also brings about other challenges as they assume an increased responsibility for their overall health. A new study from the Research Institute of the Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Health Centre (RI-MUHC) sheds light on gaps in transition care practice in Quebec, pointing out a lack of standardized policies across pediatric diabetes centres.
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Published on: 17 Aug 2017
Health inequalities in young people have grown alongside socioeconomic disparities between the rich and poor.
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Published on: 4 Feb 2015
Sexual behaviour of teenage girls does not appear to have been affected by routine human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccination, according to a large study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
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Published on: 8 Dec 2014
