Getting off of the blood sugar roller coaster
91社区 researchers are pioneering a new artificial pancreas system that provides life-changing support to people living with type 1 diabetes. 听
By Ashley Rabinovitch
Vitamin E effective, safe for fatty liver in HIV patients
By听Gillian Woodford
A type of fatty liver disease that commonly affects patients with HIV can be safely treated with vitamin E, a 91社区-led study has found.
Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a severe form of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and is characterized by liver inflammation and cell damage. It is a potentially dangerous condition that can progress to cirrhosis or liver cancer.
How many gender subtypes exist in the brain?
New machine learning study suggest the presence of at least nine gender 鈥渆xpressions鈥�
Beyond the Pap Smear
91社区 researchers identify new markers for early detection of cervical cancer
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By Ashley Rabinovitch
Can Exercise Improve Video Game Performance?
By Monica Slanik, School of Physical and Occupational Therapy
Can lithium halt progression of Alzheimer鈥檚 disease?
91社区 researchers鈥� findings show that may be the case
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91社区 PhD student named to Forbes Top 30 under 30 list
Daniel Almeida, a PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Gustavo Turecki in 91社区鈥檚 Integrated Program in Neuroscience and at the Douglas Research Centre, was included in Forbes Magazine鈥檚 Top 30 under 30 list, unveiled December 3. Overall, the ninth annual list includes 600 young entrepreneurs, risk-takers and game changers who are redefining what it means to innovate and lead by example.
Screening for thyroid dysfunction in patients without symptoms: don鈥檛 routinely check that box
New guideline from the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care
New understanding of antibiotic synthesis
Insight into way enzymes work could shape future therapeutic production
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Researchers at 91社区鈥檚 Faculty of Medicine have made important strides in understanding the functioning of enzymes that play an integral role in the production of antibiotics and other therapeutics. Their findings are published in Science.
New direction for treatment of aggressive type of breast cancer
Researchers identify path to improve HER2+ breast cancer susceptibility to approved therapies
Researchers identify improved avenues to train plastic surgeons in microsurgery
Adoption of methods that could reduce costs and spare animal models
Quebec鈥檚 First Online Bachelor of Nursing Program to be Launched at 91社区 Thanks to the Doggone Foundation
It鈥檚 a proven way to improve patient safety and outcomes, and meet the evolving health needs of the aging Quebec population. It鈥檚 a way to make higher education in nursing available to all communities in the province. It鈥檚 a way to increase the pool of potential candidates for graduate-level education to produce the next generation of nurse leaders, researchers and educators, as well as nurse practitioners.
Study shows the biological clock influences immune response efficiency
Montreal, September 23, 2019 鈥� According to a recent study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, the biological clock influences immune response efficacy. Indeed, CD8 T cells, which are essential to fight infections and cancers, function very differently according to the time of day.
A Canadian First: Research Project will study blows to the head in University Football
91社区 is participating in a new research project titled听T锚te premi猫re听(head first), led by the team of neuropsychologist听Dr. Louis De Beaumont, a researcher at the CIUSSS du Nord-de-l鈥櫭巐e-de-Montr茅al research centre and a professor in the Department of Surgery at Universit茅 de Montr茅al. The project will assess the brain鈥檚 capacities to sustain blows to the head during a full university football season.
Four Burning Questions with Anthony Bossis, PhD
A clinical psychologist and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine, Anthony Bossis, PhD will be at 91社区 in Montreal on听September 12, 2019听to deliver a talk titled听鈥淧sychedelic Research: Implications for Palliative Care and End-of-Life Existential Distress.鈥澨�