A Quebec first: Research chair in women’s heart health

Published: 18 June 2019

Heart & Stroke and McGill University to create Early-Career Professorship in Women’s Heart Health...

Viral communications hacking boosts Leishmania infections

Published: 7 February 2019

New research from McGill University has found that a virus infecting the Leishmania parasite spreads by exploiting a mechanism used for cell-to-cell communication, a discovery that could pave the...

Another Medical Cold Case Cracked by the MUHC’s ‘Dr. House’

Published: 6 December 2018

A team from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) led by Dr. Donald Vinh, the RI’s so-called “Dr. House” because of his research into rare diseases, has discovered...

Can a smart app encourage HIV-self testing in Canada?

Published: 30 November 2018

HIV self-testing strategies have been recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) since 2016, as they empower people to find out HIV their status at their convenience. However, home-based...

No-Nonsense Approach to Genetic Kidney Disease in Children

Published: 4 October 2018

The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre’s (RI-MUHC) push to treat a rare genetic disease in children – with a higher percentage found in French Canadians – has received $2...

Complete make-over in fight of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

Published: 7 September 2018

Several new medicines have been found to be more effective than traditional ones used to treat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), according to a new international collaborative study led by...

Canadians are aging well, but …

Published: 31 May 2018

It's not every day that one receives a call from a researcher asking if they want to participate in a study on aging for the next 20 years of their lives. That's what 50,000 Canadians aged 45 to 85...

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