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CJAD News - Ex-CFLer Proudfoot works to tackle Lou Gehrig's disease as his health fades
The ex-sportscaster and college professor has made his struggle a public one. His goal is to raise awareness about the fatal disease and attract much-needed cash for research.
Le Devoir - Centre de recherche sur la douleur Alan-Edwards
Ils sont plus d'une centaine à oeuvrer conjointement à l'Université McGill; Un questionnaire sur la douleur a été traduit en de multiples langues
Le Devoir - Laboratoire sur la douleur de l'université McGill - Physique et... psychologique!
«Il est curieux que, dans toutes les langues, il n'existe qu'un seul mot pour désigner la douleur. Pourtant, que vous vous cogniez un orteil, que vous ayez mal à la tête ou que vous souffriez d'une douleur chronique, vous vivez dans chaque cas quelque chose de différent.» Celle qui parle ainsi est une spécialiste de renommée mondiale de la douleur. Catherine Bushnell, du Centre de recherche Alan-E
Montreal Gazette - Ghoulish work laid foundation for neurology
(Joe Schwarcz, director of McGill University's Office for Science and Society): Professor Aldini began by swabbing the ears with salt water. He then attached a metal wire to each ear and proceeded to connect these to a battery. Almost immediately the subject's face contorted into a grimace and his eyelids began to flutter uncontrollably. The onlookers were absolutely horrified.
cyberpresse.ca - Du papier journal pour isoler les murs
Le journal que vous tenez actuellement entre vos mains et que vous mettrez demain dans votre bac de recyclage pourrait être converti en fibre (ouate) de cellulose isolante et insonorisante, se retrouver bientôt sur les tablettes de votre marchand de matériaux et, finalement, dans les murs de votre maison. Ce n'est pas de la fiction…. Professeur et chercheur de réputation mondiale à la faculté d'ar
ACSH - Innocent Plastics Wrongly Blamed For Belly Bulge
Chemist Dr. Joe Schwarcz at McGill University’s Office for Science and Society further debunks claims that the trace levels of chemicals found in foods have an effect on obesity. “Every day people are exposed to hundreds of thousands of natural and artificial chemicals which would show very similar effects if run through these sensitive tests,” he tells the Journal.
The Gazette (Montreal) - Science doesn't back miracle cures
"Malaria, AIDS, hepatitis, herpes, cancer. Now, ask yourself this question: What is the chance of a gold prospector, with no training in the health sciences, tackling a problem and finding an answer that has eluded the world's most renowned researchers?"
The Gazette (Montreal) - Pecking away at lopsided food studies
McGill's Dr. Joe Schwarcz takes on boisterous advocacy based on flimsy science.
Radio-Canada - Estuaire du Saint-Laurent : Le fleuve suffoque
Selon une équipe de scientifiques, qui rentre d'une mission de recherche à bord du Coriolis 2, le taux d'oxygène des eaux profondes de l'estuaire est toujours en diminution.
CTV - Aging hearts: Over-80s may benefit from angioplasty, bypass surgery tools
More octogenarians are surviving heart attacks and part of the credit may rest with revascularization procedures such as bypass surgery and angioplasty, a new Canadian study suggests.
Montreal Gazette - McGill's Nancy Adler and the Art of Management
McGill management prof Nancy Adler teaches with broad strokes - the brush strokes of an artist. Adler, a professor of organizational behavior and international management at McGill's Desautels Faculty of Management, has been painting for the last two decades.
Montreal Gazette - Fish will be on the menu if we make it to Mars
Chemistry professor Joe Schwarcz: "We've been to the moon. Next stop: Mars. But the trip to the moon was a small step. The one to Mars will take a giant leap."
Montreal Gazette - McGill drops entry exam; med school seeks more francophones
McGill University's medical school may have an Ivy League reputation, but it no longer has something that most of the top medical schools on the continent do -a requirement for all students to write the Medical College Admission Test.
The Globe and Mail - The census call is part of a trend on data collecting
Stuart Soroka, associate professor of political science at McGill and director of the Canadian Opinion Research Archive at Queen’s University: "Recent decisions about the mandatory long-form census are not as much of an unforeseen development as many seem to suggest. They are part of a general trend in government away from the kind of data gathering that can be critical to good policy-making…"
The Observer - Canadians say: lift the veil
Canada should ban burkas in public, according to more than half of the people polled exclusively for QMI Agency. The Leger Marketing online poll found 54% of people surveyed said the government should follow France's lead and not allow women to wear burkas in public for safety and transparency reasons.
