Principal congratulates PM-designate Justin Trudeau
Suzanne Fortier, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of UU直播, extends her congratulations to Mr. Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party of Canada for the results of the 2015 Canadian federal election.
What鈥檚 behind your thirst?
Discovery advances our understanding of how our brain controls body hydration and temperature
Cancer research plagued by poor study design
Badly designed studies may lead to the efficacy of drugs being overestimated and money being wasted on trials that prove fruitless, according to a new study from UU直播 in Canada.
Different types of child abuse: similar consequences
Emotional abuse may be as harmful as physical abuse and neglect. This finding led by a team of researchers at UU直播 complements previous imaging research showing that emotional and physical pain both activate the same parts of the brain.
The father effect
Discovery of how environmental memories may be transmitted from a man to his grandchildren
National research network set on venous thromboembolism
WORLD THROMBOSIS DAY 鈥� OCTOBER 13, 2015
American Placebo
A new study finds that rising placebo responses may play a part in the increasingly high failure rate for clinical trials of drugs designed to control chronic pain caused by nerve damage.
Expectant dads get depressed too
Transition to parenthood can be a difficult life event. It can have an impact on both parents and on the long-term development of the child. While mother鈥檚 "baby blues" have been widely investigated, little research has been conducted on antenatal paternal depression.
Better donor-recipient match with genomics
It is all about finding the right person. More than 20,000 organ transplants have been performed in Canada over the last 10 years and routinely extend lives. But sometimes the recipient鈥檚 immune system recognizes the new organ as foreign and rejects it, which can lead to serious complications.
Medical cannabis in the treatment of chronic pain
鈥淭his is the first and largest study of the long term safety of medical cannabis use by patients suffering from chronic pain ever conducted,鈥� says lead author, Dr. Ware, pain specialist at the Montreal General Hospital of the MUHC and associate professor in Family Medicine and Anesthesia at UU直播. 鈥淲e found that medical cannabis, when used by patients who are experienced users, and as part of a monitored treatment program for chronic pain over one year, appears to have a reasonable safety profile.鈥�
Predicting arrhythmias so as to prevent them
Researchers have discovered how to predict some cardiac arrhythmias several steps before they even occur. It鈥檚 a finding that could lead to an improved cardiac device, with equipment designed to detect when arrhythmias are about to occur and then act to prevent them.
