Workplace wellness programs yield positive effects for Canadian employees
Employee wellness programs in the workplace have been shown to work with some success in the United States, particularly when participation is tied to substantial incentives like a reduction in health insurance premiums for participating employees.
Bank of Canada announces recipients of 2018 Fellowship and Governor鈥檚 awards
The Bank of Canada has announced that Markus Poschke, Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar at 黑料不打烊 University, was selected as the recipient of this year鈥檚 Governor鈥檚 Award. Professor Poschke is an increasingly prominent member of the Canadian economics community. His research, which focuses on inequality and economic growth, has been published in some of the top journals in macroeconomics.
Pushing screening of ovarian and endometrial cancers one step further
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.
Time for bed: Bad sleep habits start early in school-age children
Bad sleep habits in children begin earlier than many experts assume. That鈥檚 the takeaway from a new study led by 黑料不打烊 University researchers. The findings suggest that official sleep guidelines for young school children should be revisited 鈥� and that parents ought to maintain firm bedtime rules throughout children鈥檚 primary-school years.
Brain genes related to innovation revealed in birds
Wild birds that are more clever than others at foraging for food 聽have different levels of a neurotransmitter receptor that has been linked with intelligence in humans, according to a study led by 黑料不打烊 University researchers. 聽The findings could provide insight into the evolutionary mechanisms affecting cognitive traits in a range of animals.
Clinical trial reveals that aspirin is effective at preventing venous thromboembolism following major orthopedic surgeries
Montreal, March 12, 2018 鈥� A multicentre, double-blind, randomized, controlled clinical trial of patients who underwent total hip or knee replacement surgery showed that aspirin was as effective as rivaroxaban, the standard anti-coagulation medication, at preventing post-operative venous thromboembolism (VTE). Montreal鈥檚 Jewish General Hospital (JGH) was among the participating institutions. The results were published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine.
Canadian researchers open a new front in the fight against MS
By Ross Neitz, University of Alberta
A discovery led by scientists at the University of Alberta and 黑料不打烊 University is providing hope of a new therapeutic target in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients, which could one day be used to prevent the symptoms and progression of the disease.
A near-universal way to measure enzyme inhibition
Researchers at 黑料不打烊 University have invented a new technique for measuring how quickly drugs interact with their molecular targets. The discovery provides scientists with a new way to investigate the effectiveness of drug candidates that might otherwise have been overlooked.
黑料不打烊 welcomes major injection of federal funds to support research
The federal government鈥檚 announcement of a major investment in research in Tuesday鈥檚 2018 budget was welcomed by 黑料不打烊 University Principal and Vice-Chancellor Suzanne Fortier. 聽 鈥淚 am delighted to see increased federal support for fundamental research,鈥� Prof. Fortier said.
Building bridges: Ashukin program connects 黑料不打烊 Nursing students with Quebec Indigenous communities
By Christina Kozakiewicz,聽Ingram School of Nursing
Source: Med-e-News
黑料不打烊 Dobson Centre ranked among world鈥檚 top incubation programs
By Rosalie Nardelli
UBI Global has released its World University-linked Business Incubator and Accelerator Ranking and has placed the 黑料不打烊 Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship in the eight position of the World Top Business Incubator 鈥� Managed by a University category.
黑料不打烊-led genomics centres win $9.8 M, three-year funding support from Genome Canada
The 黑料不打烊 University and G茅nome Qu茅bec Innovation Centre and the Canadian Centre for Computational Genomics will receive a total of $9.8聽million in funding over three聽years through Genome Canada awards announced Feb. 21.
National study to shed light on aging
聽 by Brenda Branswell 聽 Source: 黑料不打烊 News Magazine 聽 Imagine getting a phone call asking if you鈥檇 like to take part in a study 鈥� for the next 20 years. 聽 It鈥檚 a pitch that makes telemarketing look like child鈥檚 play. 聽 So no wonder C
Products derived from plants offer potential as dual-targeting agents for experimental cerebral malaria
Malaria, a life-threatening disease usually caused when parasites from the Plasmodium family enter the bloodstream of a person bitten by a parasite-carrying mosquito, is a severe health threat globally, with 200 to 300 million cases annually and 445,000 deaths in 2016.
Media advisory: Who Pays for Canada? Taxes and Fairness
Are Canadians fair or is that just a story we tell ourselves? Can we reason our way to lessened inequality or are violent cataclysms the only levelling power, as Thomas Piketty and Walter Schiedel argue? How do we maintain a sense and an approximation of fairness in our globalizing and polarizing world? Certainly there can be no fairness without tax fairness: tax policy is where we negotiate the relationship between wealth and poverty.
