Teen vaping has been on the rise, with reports of rapidly increasing use across North America.  While some consider vapes to be a useful tool for smoking cessation, new research from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) supports a growing public health concern about potential adverse health consequences.

Classified as: vaping, E-cigarette, Carolyn Baglole
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Published on: 2 Feb 2023

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in Quebec and Canada, killing more individuals than prostate, colon and breast cancers combined. Thanks to tissue samples from almost 500 lung cancer patients, a group of researchers from McGill University and Université Laval were able to identify those who were likely to have a cancer recurrence and require further treatment post-surgery.

Classified as: lung cancer, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC)
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Published on: 2 Feb 2023

Every day, humans breathe in 11,000 litres of air. But this essential act also means we inhale microorganisms, particles, and pollutants. A new study from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) has revealed how the unique immune cells that are developed in the embryo protect our lungs from environmental challenges throughout the course of our lifetime.

Classified as: Maziar Divangahi, McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC)
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Published on: 2 Feb 2023

For professional athletes, the pressures of competition and stigma surrounding mental health issues can be debilitating to the point where some are leaving the arena for good. Young hockey players are no exception. Fear of negative career repercussions can mean athletes avoid disclosing their mental health concerns.

Classified as: canadian mental health association, hockey, Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, Gordon Bloom
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Published on: 27 Jan 2023

Indigenous communities across the globe are fighting to retain their languages, which serve as means through which cultures, knowledge and traditions are preserved and transmitted between generations.

Classified as: Noelani Arista, Indigenous Studies, Department of History and Classical Studies, artificial intelligence (AI), Indigenous language revitalization
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Published on: 27 Jan 2023

If you could redesign high school, what might you change? Like most educational institutions across Canada, Montreal’s English high schools retain structures from the time of the industrial revolution. As the realities of students’ lives have transformed, schools are slowly adapting to a knowledge-based economy and unpredictable ecological and social challenges.

Classified as: Lisa Starr, Aron Rosenberg, Department of Integrated Studies in Education, Montreal, high school, education, Reform
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Published on: 27 Jan 2023

A new report by McGill University Faculty of Education researchers shows Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), Ontario’s Talk Today program is making a positive impact on athletes in the Canadian Junior Hockey League (CJHL).

Classified as: Faculty of Education, Gordon Bloom, hockey, youth mental health, Sports
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Published on: 26 Jan 2023

What drives crocodile evolution? Is climate a major factor or changes in sea levels? Determined to find answers to these questions, researchers from McGill University discovered that while changing temperatures and rainfall had little impact on the crocodiles’ gene flow over the past three million years, changes to sea levels during the Ice Age had a different effect.

Classified as: crocodiles, DNA, evolution, climate change, sea levels, rainfall
Published on: 25 Jan 2023

How do stars form in distant galaxies? Astronomers have long been trying to answer this question by detecting radio signals emitted by nearby galaxies. However, these signals become weaker the further away a galaxy is from Earth, making it difficult for current radio telescopes to pick up.

Classified as: space, radio signal, distant, galaxy, stars, Earth
Published on: 16 Jan 2023

To better understand food-related decisions during the pandemic, a team of McGill researchers, including School of Human Nutrition Professor Daiva Nielsen and postdoctoral fellow Katherine Labonté, conducted an online survey among a sample of adults from Quebec to compare grocery shopping behaviours in 2019 and 2020. The study showed that at the beginning of the pandemic, people reduced the frequency of in-store shopping expeditions. This reduction occurred in tandem with a rise in curbside pick-up and delivery.

Classified as: McGill University, electronic dance music, EDM, covid-19, groceries, consumption
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Published on: 11 Jan 2023

In the electronic dance music (EDM) community, what is viewed as intellectual property theft isn’t always up to the law—it’s up to the community. Norms around unlawful activities, such as illegal remixing, are often ambiguous and situation-specific. Ironically, illegal remixes can garner support, even career-launching acclaim.

Classified as: McGill University, electronic dance music
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Published on: 11 Jan 2023

Certain tech companies are promising dazzling futures when it comes to transportation, like Uber’s vision of skies buzzing with helicopter-like flying cars, and Elon Musk’s design for layers upon layers of automobile tunnels below city streets.

Classified as: McGill University
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Published on: 11 Jan 2023

About a quarter of the world’s electricity currently comes from power plants fired by natural gas. These contribute significantly to global greenhouse gas emissions (amounting to 10% of energy-related emissions according to the most recent figures from 2017) and climate change.

Classified as: engineering, Green house gas emissions, Sarah Jordaan, Sustainability
Published on: 11 Jan 2023

Women who experience recent intimate partner violence (IPV) are three times more likely to contract HIV, according to a new study led by McGill University researchers. In regions like Sub-Saharan Africa, women face an intersecting epidemic of intimate partner violence and HIV.

“Worldwide, more than one in four women experience intimate partner violence in their lifetime," says McGill University Professor Mathieu Maheu-Giroux, a Canada Research Chair in Population Health Modeling.

Classified as: intimate partner violence, IVP, HIV, infections, Gender-based violence
Published on: 5 Jan 2023

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