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THE HILLS TIMES | Cancer drugs costly for many Canadians, free for others

Prescription drug coverage is a major problem in Canada. Canadians not only pay significantly more for medication than consumers in many other developed countries but many inequities in access exist, says Mark Sorin, a student in the MD/PhD Program at McGill University and Amélie Quesnel-Vallée, the Canada research chair on policies and health inequalities and director of the observatory on health and social services reforms at McGill University.

Published: 2 Oct 2019

NATIONAL POST | No, beef isn't bad for you: Scientists conclude there is no need to eat less red or processed meat

The new recommendations, however, are already getting pushback. The authors readily admit that their recommendations come with a “low certainty of evidence,” noted Dr. Joe Schwarcz, of McGill University, “because the studies themselves have low certainty of evidence.”

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Published: 1 Oct 2019

THE CONVERSATION | Antibiotic resistance: why tests are key to arresting the trend

"Infections are a leading cause of death worldwide. But widespread resistance to almost all available antibacterials is a reality in low and middle-income countries. [...] Working with colleagues from McGill University, the University of British Columbia and Harvard Medical School, we looked at how antibiotics affected people’s blood results." - Cédric Yansouni, Associate Director, J.D.

Published: 1 Oct 2019

THE GLOBE AND MAIL | The loss of three billion birds in North America is the canary in the coal mine

David M. Bird is an emeritus professor of wildlife biology at McGill University who has studied birds for five decades. "When I read the recent headlines that North America has lost nearly three billion birds over just the past five decades, I was not surprised. But I must admit it did depress me to a degree. That’s a lot of birds!"

Published: 30 Sep 2019

MONTREAL GAZETTE | Despite problems, bus ridership in Montreal up slightly in 2018

The increase in ridership for 2018 was surprising to Nick Chaloux, a transportation planner and former researcher at TRAM - Transportation Research at McGill. "The fact there is a slight growth is positive," said Chaloux, who published a paper last year that highlighted concerns about the decline in the STM's bus service. "The STM was operating with 100 fewer buses on average, with all the side effects that come with that.

Published: 30 Sep 2019

MONTREAL GAZETTE | Jane Goodall delivers powerful message at McGill

Jane Goodall is the renowned, 85-year-old primatologist whose groundbreaking research on chimpanzees in the 1960s forever redefined humanity’s relationship with nature. She was awarded an honorary doctorate Thursday from McGill University and delivered the 65th annual Beatty Lecture — the only person to have done so twice. The first time was in 1979.

Published: 27 Sep 2019

GLOBAL NEWS | McGill University hopes to raise $2B with fundraising campaign

McGill University’s west field was the official launching pad for the Made by McGill campaign, where hundreds gathered under large white tents as the institution unveiled a $2-billion fundraising endeavour on Thursday.

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Published: 27 Sep 2019

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC | Oceans and ice are absorbing the brunt of climate change

“Now, there’s tons of evidence, decades of change that we’ve observed, and now we can go in and say we are confident that climate change is influencing so many of these different species,” says Jennifer Sunday, a marine biologist at McGill University.

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Published: 26 Sep 2019

BUSINESS STANDARD | Body clock study may help improve vaccine strategies

According to the researchers, including those from Douglas Research Centre of McGill University in Canada, a type of immune cells called the CD8 T cells -- which are essential to fight infections and cancers -- function very differently according to the time of day.

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Published: 26 Sep 2019

NEWSWEEK | Teabags can release billions of microplastics into your drink, study finds

Study co-author Nathalie Tufenkji, from the Brace Center for Water Resources Management at McGill University, Canada, told Newsweek: "I was sitting in a shop enjoying a cup of tea when I looked down at my cup and noticed that the teabag seemed to be made of plastic. I immediately asked myself whether it could be releasing plastic particles into the tea."

Published: 25 Sep 2019

THE STRAITS TIMES | Experts outline ways to counter foreign interference

Taylor Owen of Canada's McGill University, said that the bigger threat to national security is not the law-breaking behaviour of people but the vulnerabilities in a country's information infrastructure, which is often outsourced to private organisations.

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Published: 25 Sep 2019

CBC | Women and science suffer when medical research doesn't study females

"I've been finding sex differences for 20-25 years now in my laboratory. And sometimes we find them on purpose and other times we're working on something else entirely and there they are," said Jeff Mogil, a professor of pain studies at McGill University. "I'm convinced now that sex differences are all over pain biology — at almost every level of analysis."

Published: 24 Sep 2019

CBC | Untested legal options could give feds ways to intervene on Bill 21

"There are legal bases for challenging the law that are not touched by the notwithstanding clause at all," says Robert Leckey, dean of law at McGill University.

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Published: 23 Sep 2019

CBC | Are Quebecers hypocrites when it comes to climate change?

Jean-François Daoust, a post-doctoral fellow at McGill's Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship. Daoust, who studies voter behaviour, said it's rare to see a correlation between an issue's importance and where the votes ultimately go.

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Published: 23 Sep 2019

PSYCHOLOGY TODAY | Negative Memory Bias and Depression

Coping with depression is no easy task. Despite being one of the most widespread forms of psychiatric pathology, the simple answer is that researchers are not certain {what causes depression}. As noted above, some depressive episodes may be triggered by trauma, but other factors—including one’s neurochemistry, one’s neural architecture, and how well one’s brain responds to stress—can have an impact on how susceptible an individual is to depression.

Published: 6 Sep 2019

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