Gut hormone increases response to food

Published: 12 December 2018

Ghrelin promotes conditioning to food-related odours...

What’s behind your thirst?

Published: 15 October 2015

Discovery advances our understanding of how our brain controls body hydration and temperature

Key funding for ground-breaking epigenetics research

Published: 22 October 2012

The McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre will receive generous support from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and Génome Québec to continue its trailblazing...

BEWARE: off-label prescription drug use

Published: 2 November 2015

A new study led by researchers in Canada sheds light on the effects of off-label use of prescription drugs with the first-ever investigation in adult populations.

The right amount of vitamin D for babies

Published: 30 April 2013

Vitamin D is crucial to the growth of healthy bones. It is especially important that babies get enough of it during the first twelve months of their lives when their bones are growing rapidly. This...

No more ‘sugar-coating’ on invasive fungus

Published: 5 November 2015

There are believed to be around 1.5 million different species of fungus on Earth, but one mold, known as Aspergillus fumigatus, causes the majority of cases of invasive aspergillosis – a...

McGill gets $91.5 mln in CIHR funding

Published: 28 July 2015

Researchers from McGill University and its hospital-affiliated research institutes have been awarded $91.5 million in grants in the latest round of funding by the Canadian Institutes of Health...

Trans-generations (CIHR Café scientifique)

Published: 11 January 2016

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF) presents a Café scientifique titled "Trans-generations: Trans History, Health,...

Choosing to end it all

Published: 27 August 2015

Difficulty making good choices is one of the factors that make certain people vulnerable to suicide

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