Pushing screening of ovarian and uterine cancers one step further
Dr. Lucy Gilbert and Dr. Kris Jardon with colleagues from Johns Hopkins Institute in the U.S have developed a safer, less invasive test for detecting early ovarian and uterine cancers. Their findings received extensive media coverage: CTV National & CTV Montreal, CBC Health Unit, The Gazette, Radio-Canada International, La Presse, Le Devoir, Téléjournal Radio-Canada, TVA Nouvelles, CBC Homerun and Quebec AM, CJAD 800 AM Natasha Hall, etc.
Quebec Science unveils the Discovery of the Year public prize!
An anti-cancer probe developed by a team of researchers including Kevin Petrecca of the Montreal Neurological Institute and the McGill University Health Centre has won the prize for top discovery of the year of Québec Science magazine.
Brain’s biological clock stimulates thirst before sleep
We know that sleep and the temperature of our body are regulated by our biological clock. Charles Bourque, a scientist at the Research Institute of the MUHC in Montreal, has discovered that thirst would be regulated too! Watch the fascinating report produced by Les Électrons Libres on Télé-Québec.
Concussions: Saccade Analytics targets the NHL
NHL representative George Parros is in talks with a Montreal company about a concussion detection program developed in collaboration with Alain Ptito, Director of MUHC’s Department of Psychology and a Neuro clinician. Watch the report on RDS
Are opioids the best medicine for treating pain?
A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association looked at the effects of opioids on chronic pain. Dr. Jordi Perez, a pain management specialist from the Alan Edwards Pain Management Unit at the MUHC, was in studio at CBC 88.5fm Homerun this week to discuss the findings.
Heart trouble - women also die from it
According to Dr. Louise Pilote, a professor of medicine at McGill and researcher at the Research Institute of the MUHC, “women are five times more likely to die from a heart illness than breast cancer and more likely to die from a heart attack than a man...” an interview in La Presse +
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