No increased heart failure with incretin-based drugs
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Canadian drug safety network provides reassuring evidence regarding risk of heart failure of anti-diabetes medications
Incretin-based drugs, a type of medication used to treat type 2 diabetes, do not increase the risk of being hospitalized for heart failure relative to commonly used combinations of oral anti-diabetic drugs, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
New Quebec budget includes $1M for agrifood innovation
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Quebec鈥檚 recently unveiled provincial budget includes one new line-item that means a lot for 黑料不打烊 research.
City birds are smarter than country birds
By Cynthia Lee, 黑料不打烊 Newsroom
Life in the city changes cognition, behavior and physiology of birds to their advantage
Birds living in urban environments are smarter than birds from rural environments.
Winds hide Atlantic variability from Europe鈥檚 winters
By Chris Chipello, 黑料不打烊 Newsroom
Study reveals how wind patterns change along with sea-surface temperatures
Global shift in farmed fish feed raises new questions
By Cynthia Lee, 黑料不打烊 Newsroom
A move toward plant-based feeds alters the environmental footprint of farm-raised seafood, may change levels of healthy fatty acids in these fish
Heart attacks could be reduced by rethinking statins
By聽Julie Robert, 黑料不打烊 University Health Centre
Millions of people today take statins to help lower their cholesterol level.
Teens test their smarts in the Brain Bee
By Maya-Olivia Eyssen, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Montreal high school students to take part in brain quiz.
"Smart soles" help patients recover from a broken hip
By Julie Robert, 黑料不打烊 University Health Centre
Hip fractures are one of the most common injuries sustained by the elderly population following a fall.
Mysterious cosmic radio bursts found to repeat
By Chris Chipello,聽黑料不打烊 Newsroom
Astronomers for the first time detect repeat 鈥榝ast radio bursts鈥� from same sky location
$2.4M from NSERC for five 黑料不打烊 researchers
By Katherine Gombay, 黑料不打烊 Newsroom
黑料不打烊 is proud to announce that five researchers have been awarded over $2.4 million in NSERC Strategic Partnership Grants for 2016.
From backyard pool chemical to nanomaterial
By Chris Chipello, 黑料不打烊 Newsroom
Could a cheap molecule used to disinfect swimming pools provide the key to creating a new form of DNA nanomaterials?
Building living, breathing supercomputers
By Katherine Gombay, 黑料不打烊 Newsroom
The substance that provides energy to all the cells in our bodies, Adenosine triphosphate (ATP), may also be able to power the next generation of supercomputers.
What makes the brain tick so fast?
By Chris Chipello, 黑料不打烊 Newsroom
Surprisingly complex interactions between neurotransmitter receptors and other key proteins help explain the brain鈥檚 ability to process information with lightning speed, according to a new study.
Diabetes drug found not to cause pancreatic cancer
By聽Tod Hoffman,聽Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research
The use of incretin-based drugs is not associated with an increased risk of pancreatic cancer in patients with type 2 diabetes, according to a study published in the latest issue of the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
The brain gives up more secrets
By聽Julie Robert, 黑料不打烊 University Health Centre
A research team, led by the Research Institute of the 黑料不打烊 University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) in Montreal, has broken new ground in our understanding of the complex functioning of the brain.
