/channels/taxonomy/term/9366/all en /channels/channels/event/grand-rounds-23rd-annual-ld-maclean-general-surgery-visiting-professor-360439 <p><strong>Speaker: Dr. Sherry Wren</strong></p> <p>More details to come.</p> Tue, 15 Oct 2024 17:40:19 +0000 webfull 203527 at /channels /channels/channels/event/grand-rounds-22nd-annual-ld-maclean-general-surgery-visiting-professor-357061 <h3 style="text-align:center">HYBRID EVENT</h3> <h3>Multidisciplinary Grand Rounds Surgical Grand Rounds</h3> <h4>Location: Osler Amphitheatre, MGH A6-105</h4> Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:49:13 +0000 webfull 199757 at /channels /channels/channels/news/nutrition-month-kiosks-muhc-355709 <p>Discover free resources on nutrition provided by the MUHC鈥檚 medical libraries and patient resource centres!</p> <p>The Neuro-Patient Resource Center and Neuro Medical Library kiosk will take place on March 12 from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m at the main entrance on the first floor of The Neuro.</p> <p>Enter our raffle for a chance to win a gift card from a local bookstore!</p> Mon, 26 Feb 2024 18:31:33 +0000 webfull 198133 at /channels /channels/channels/event/nutrition-month-kiosks-muhc-355658 <p>Discover free resources on nutrition provided by the MUHC鈥檚 medical libraries and patient resource centres!</p> Fri, 23 Feb 2024 17:57:35 +0000 webfull 198075 at /channels /channels/channels/event/mcgill-cares-webcast-relationship-between-concussions-and-neurocognitive-disorders-325333 <p>Join us on <strong>October 21 at noon</strong> for the next webcast in our weekly series, <strong><a href="//www.mcgill.ca/medsimcentre/community-outreach/dementia/mcgill-cares-webcasts">黑料不打烊 Cares</a></strong>, designed to support informal care</p> Wed, 14 Oct 2020 13:54:48 +0000 webfull 164241 at /channels /channels/channels/news/hydroxychloroquine-shortages-when-enthusiasm-potential-cure-affects-patients-322994 <p>Amid initial public and scientific optimism for hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as a potential treatment for COVID-19, health care professionals raised concerns about shortages of this inexpensive drug, which is widely used in the treatment of several rheumatic diseases such as arthritis. A new national survey of rheumatologists led by researchers at the 黑料不打烊 University Health Centre (MUHC) shows that most of them reported difficulties accessing or renewing the drug.</p> Thu, 25 Jun 2020 19:39:43 +0000 webfull 161676 at /channels /channels/channels/news/male-fertility-after-chemotherapy-new-questions-raised-311169 <p>A pilot study conducted by INRS and 黑料不打烊 researchers highlights the effect of chemotherapy on male fertility before and after puberty.</p> <p>"It is often thought that cancer treatments for prepubescent boys will have no effect on their fertility because their testicles would be "dormant". But in fact, the prepubertal testis are not immune to chemotherapy that affects dividing cells and it is now well recognized that there can be long-term effects," explains G茅raldine Delb猫s, a professor at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) in Laval.</p> Wed, 22 Jan 2020 19:31:05 +0000 webfull 157564 at /channels /channels/channels/news/potential-gender-bias-against-female-researchers-peer-review-research-grants-286794 <p>Female health researchers who applied for grants from Canada's major health research funder were funded less often than male counterparts because of potential bias, and characteristics of peer reviewers can also affect the result, found a study in the <a href="https://bit.ly/2HamSqP">Canadian Medical Association Journal</a>.</p> <p>Applicants who had not been previously funded also received lower scores, making them less likely to be funded.</p> Mon, 23 Apr 2018 18:21:19 +0000 webfull 137541 at /channels /channels/channels/news/babies-eggs-send-signals-when-hungry-286454 <div> Mon, 09 Apr 2018 13:45:49 +0000 webfull 137176 at /channels /channels/channels/news/tackling-adherence-treatment-several-fronts-286248 <p><span>Learning to become self-sufficient and responsible is part of life鈥檚 journey through the teen and young adult years. Mistakes are often made, and lessons are learned. However, for young kidney-graft patients, any mistake or failure in keeping to their strict immunosuppressive therapy can lead to tragic results. In fact, low-adherence to medication remains a major contributor to the high level of organ rejection in this age group.</span></p> Tue, 27 Mar 2018 19:32:36 +0000 webfull 136930 at /channels /channels/channels/news/pushing-screening-ovarian-and-endometrial-cancers-one-step-further-286049 <div>A team from the Research Institute of 黑料不打烊 University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) in Montreal has joined forces with researchers at Johns Hopkins to bring screening and early detection of ovarian and uterine cancers one step closer to clinical implementation. Researchers developed a test that provides a safe and minimally invasive method for earlier diagnosis of ovarian and endometrial cancers.</div> Wed, 21 Mar 2018 23:38:40 +0000 webfull 136623 at /channels /channels/channels/news/meet-ripk3-good-cop-bad-cop-all-one-285090 <p><span>Each year, influenza kills half a million people globally with the elderly and very young most often the victims. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 37聽children have died聽in the United States during the current flu聽season. Aside from getting the flu shot and employing smart hand hygiene, there are no other methods of prevention. However, a team of scientists from the Research Institute of the 黑料不打烊 University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) and 黑料不打烊 University, led by Immunologist Dr.</span></p> Wed, 14 Feb 2018 15:09:01 +0000 webfull 135419 at /channels /channels/channels/news/epigenetic-alteration-vitamin-b12-processing-gene-shines-new-light-our-understanding-rare-diseases-284319 <p>Rare hereditary recessive diseases were thought to be expressed in offspring only when both parents carry a mutation in the causal gene, but a new study is changing this paradigm. An international research team led by scientists at the University of Lorraine in France along with 黑料不打烊 University and the Research Institute of the 黑料不打烊 University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) in Canada discovered a new cause of a rare condition known as<em> cblC</em>, that they named 鈥渆pi-<em>cblC</em>鈥�. They reported it in patients from Europe and the United States.</p> Tue, 30 Jan 2018 19:16:43 +0000 webfull 134593 at /channels /channels/channels/news/re-programming-innate-immune-cells-fight-tuberculosis-283809 <p align="center"> Thu, 11 Jan 2018 17:33:33 +0000 webfull 134020 at /channels /channels/channels/event/desjardins-centre-advanced-training-ri-muhc-career-half-day-trainees-270728 <p>On November 24, he <a href="http://rimuhc.ca/dcat" target="_blank">Desjardins Centre for Advanced Training</a>, has prepared a series of talks and a panel discussion on the hiring processes of different industries.</p> Fri, 29 Sep 2017 17:18:53 +0000 webfull 131555 at /channels