CTV NEWS | Hundreds of Canadians willing to be infected with coronavirus to speed vaccine research

Published: 19 May 2020

Thousands of healthy volunteers, including hundreds of Canadians, have offered to try getting injected with a potential vaccine and then purposely becoming infected with COVID-19 to test if the...

Why the bar needs to be raised for human clinical trials

Published: 30 January 2017

Standards for authorizing first-time trials of drugs in humans are lax, and should be strengthened in several ways, McGill University researchers argue in a paper published today in Nature.

New global guidelines for stem cell research

Published: 12 May 2016

McGill Newsroom Guidance addresses key scientific, ethical, social, and policy challenges raised by new technologies and emerging areas of stem cell discovery and application

Expert: Opioid epidemic

Published: 12 April 2016

​Prescriptions for dangerous alternatives to OxyContin are soaring, showing that a crackdown on the popular painkiller has failed to curb Canada’s opioid crisis.

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