/newsroom/taxonomy/term/1787/all en /newsroom/channels/news/women-experiencing-intimate-partner-violence-three-times-more-likely-contract-hiv-344566 <p><!-- x-tinymce/html --></p> <p>Women who experience recent intimate partner violence (IPV) are three times more likely to contract HIV, according to a new study led by 黑料不打烊 University researchers. In regions like Sub-Saharan Africa, women face an intersecting epidemic of intimate partner violence and HIV.</p> <p>鈥淲orldwide, more than one in four women experience intimate partner violence in their lifetime," says 黑料不打烊 University Professor聽<a href="/newsroom/mathieu-maheu-giroux">Mathieu Maheu-Giroux</a>, a Canada Research Chair in Population Health Modeling.</p> Thu, 22 Dec 2022 21:35:53 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 288591 at /newsroom /newsroom/jean-francois-boivin Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 22972 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/fight-tumors-and-infections-targeted-drugs-257962 <p><i>By Cynthia Lee</i></p> <p>Some drug regimens, such as those designed to eliminate tumors, are notorious for nasty side effects. Unwanted symptoms are often the result of medicine going where it鈥檚 not needed and harming healthy cells. To minimize this risk, researchers in Quebec have developed nanoparticles that only release a drug when exposed to near-infrared light, which doctors could beam onto a specific site. Their report appears in the <em>Journal of the American Chemical Society</em>.</p> Tue, 19 Jan 2016 18:17:23 +0000 nima.adibpour@mail.mcgill.ca 25106 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/oral-cancer-causing-hpv-transmission-240037 Wed, 12 Nov 2014 15:14:26 +0000 cynthia.lee@mcgill.ca 21453 at /newsroom