Innovation is alive and well at McGill. That is one of the many conclusions one can draw from the latest round of the McGill Innovation Fund (MIF). Now in its third year, the MIF – one of the...
If you go to the grocery store in Montreal, you will likely buy fresh produce. Let’s say, you get a pack of Driscoll strawberries. You may not realize it, but those strawberries are grown in...
We should all be thankful for the advances of modern medicine, particularly over the last decades. Cancer, for example, once considered a death sentence, is steadily being beaten back. Since 1991...
Ever since the first pacemaker was implanted into a human body back in 1958, the use of medical devices has grown to the point where it is now a routine affair. In Canada, there were over 700,000...
The acronym MRI is probably one of the most commonly quoted medical terms around. Magnetic Resonance Imaging was a revolution in healthcare when it first made its commercial appearance in 1980,...
Water: The wondrous tasteless and colorless liquid without which, all life on this planet would not exist. That miraculous conjoining of two hydrogen molecules and one oxygen molecule – without a...