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How does cancer spread?
December 10th, 2018 Releases Research Montreal - How does cancer spread? While studying human brain tumour cells, a team of scientists at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) found some answers to this crucial, yet so …
Personalized medicine: revealing the secrets of drug actions
December 12th, 2018 Research How can we benefit from a drug without having to deal with any undesirable side effects? That’s the idea behind the work that Dr. Stéphane Laporte is conducting in his laboratory at the Glen site of the Research Institute of …
Québec Science honours a research team at the MUHC
January 5th, 2019 Releases Recent work by MUHC gyneco-oncologists Dr. Lucy Gilbert, Xing Zeng and Kris Jardon, along with American researchers, has been hailed as one of Québec Science 's top ten discoveries of the year 2018! Each year, this scientific …
Health through diet
March 29th, 2019 Lidia Ojeda’s appointment at the Pain Clinic had just finished when we met on a Friday afternoon at the Montreal General Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre (MGH-MUHC). While we were looking for a quiet place to sit and talk, …
Using laser light to study how epilepsy arises in the healthy brain
April 3rd, 2019 Releases Scientists at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) have developed a new method to study how seizures arise in the healthy brain. Using laser light guided through ultra-thin optic fibers in the …
Expressions of Interest: Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC)
April 4th, 2019 News Location: Montreal, QC. The McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) is one of the world’s foremost academic health centres with a vision to assure exceptional and integrated patient-centric care, research, teaching and technology …
Increase in children and teens seen in ERs for suicide attempts and suicidal thoughts
April 11th, 2019 Releases A new study led by a research team at the Montreal Children’s Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre (MCH-MUHC) shows that emergency room visits for children and teenagers who had thoughts of suicide or had attempted …
Sustaining green practices beyond Earth Day
April 18th, 2019 Even in recycling, quality over quantity matters. On this Earth Day, the MUHC is taking important strides to decrease its carbon footprint across its network as a leading environmentally-friendly healthcare institution. How, exactly? The …
Flooding | Hotline
April 21st, 2019 The arrival of spring and warmer temperatures is a delight! But melting snow increases water levels and the risk of flooding in certain areas. If you have any questions concerning our services or if you need psychosocial assistance in …
Talking open science with Dr. Nitika Pant Pai
April 30th, 2019 Research Known for her work developing HIV Smart!, an award-winning smartphone application that allows for home-based self-testing for HIV, Dr. Nitika Pant Pai , Associate Professor in McGill University’s Department of Medicine, is also a …