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Achoo! Let’s face it, allergies are a nuisance
September 16th, 2013 If you are an allergy sufferer, you are not without company. In Canada, 30 to 35 per cent of individuals are suffering along with you. This time of year, the main culprit is ragweed and other weed-plant pollens. For some sufferers, …
Do Fad Diets work?
September 23rd, 2013 With heavy sweaters hiding your figure, it’s not a surprise that many of us pack on a few extra pounds as the weather turns cold. Studies show that 70-80% of individuals experience increased appetite in winter and as many as 90% of …
Research shows blocking overactive receptor in Alzheimer’s recovers memory loss
September 20th, 2013 Researchers from the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre (The Neuro), McGill University and Université de Montréal have published a study showing that memory pathology in older mice with …
Learn about our new streamlined pathology procedures
September 23rd, 2013 Download the information pamphlet » Return to main page …
Tick tock goes the biological clock
September 25th, 2013 Montreal University Health Centre gynaecologist Shauna Leigh Reinblatt helps us understand how our bodies tell us it’s time to have that baby. Dr. Shauna Rienblatt who specializes in infertility at the McGill Reproductive Centre was a …
Tools of the trade: computer simulation helps with transition planning
September 27th, 2013 A simulation model is a representation of a system that assumes or mimics the system’s pertinent outward qualities, which can be used to infer how the real system will operate. Manuel D. Rossetti, Simulation Modeling and Arena, …
The MUHC Hospitalist Unit
September 30th, 2013 Dr. Anita Brown-Johnson, Chantal Lefebvre and the Hospitalist Care Unit nursing staff. After suffering from incessant vertigo and difficulty controlling some of her motor functions, Florence Mildred Reid arrived at the McGill …
First-ever 3D atlas of the brain brings big gains
September 30th, 2013 Images courtesy of the Brain Imagin Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University. Big Brain is one of the newest 3D blockbusters to hit the scene, but unlike most of its kind, it is not the work of Hollywood. This …
A gift of unexpected sight
September 30th, 2013 By Aaron Derfel, The Gazette Pierre-Paul Thomas, legally blind all his life until earlier this year. Legally blind all of his life, Pierre-Paul Thomas’s world was grey and shadowy. But as Aaron Derfel reports, a hospital visit for an …
Aging well
September 30th, 2013 Canadians are living longer than ever before, and the result will be an unprecedented shift in demographics as the number of over-65s skyrockets. The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) is investigating the implications of …