SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN | A Common Anesthetic Could Ease PTSD and Other Stress Disorders
Alain Brunet of McGill University in Montreal has done extensive research on propranolol and says it has now been proven in a randomized clinical trial he published last year that propranolol is more effective than a placebo.
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RADIO-CANADA INTERNATIONAL | Do media need to scale down coverage of mass murders?
Whenever a tragedy of such horrific proportions occurs as the recent New Zealand killings, the media flock to the site and begin massive coverage. [...] Robert Whitley (PhD) is a professor of psychiatry at McGill University and research scientist at the Douglas Hospital mental health Research Centre both in Montreal.
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WIRED | Women's pain is different from men's- The drugs could be too
This represents the first direct human evidence that pain seems to be as sex-dependent in its underlying biology in humans as we have been suggesting for a while now, based on experiments in mice," says Jeffrey Mogil, professor of pain studies at McGill University in Montreal and a leading researcher on sex differences in pain, who was not involved in the Brain study.
NEW YORK TIMES | Boeing’s C.E.O. Speaks: ‘Our Hearts Are Heavy’
“The F.A.A. has been something that Canada would follow to a considerable degree,” said Karl Moore, a business professor at McGill University in Montreal who closely follows the aviation industry. “So I would view this as a considerable shift.”
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CBC NEWS | Montreal architects get $500K to show how Canada's cities hide in plain sight on screen
This week, the Canada Council for the Arts announced that Montreal architecture and design studio T B A will represent Canada at the prestigious event with their project Impostor Cities — which will be curated by David Theodore, the Canada Research Chair in Architecture at McGill University.
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CBC NEWS | 737 MAX 8 bans send airlines scrambling to move travellers
Video with Karl Moore: "I would urge Canadians to be a bit patient with Air Canada and WestJet because it’s not their fault that the plane is grounded."
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CBC NEWS | ‘Smart’ cities promise economic and environmental benefits to the developing world
Few see the world like Sarah Moser, one of the planet's most prominent researchers into a phenomenon that's taking over how we live: "New cities are seen as a way to transition economies from resource-based economies into a digital era. And oftentimes real estate is a key part of this project. It's an extremely lucrative business around the world right now. This is big money."
MONTREAL GAZETTE| EMSB students recruited to partner with MUHC researchers
Aiming to inspire the next generation of scientists, the McGill University Health Centre and the English Montreal School Boardare teaming up to pair high school students with researchers on a wide range of projects.
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MONTREAL GAZETTE | Opinion: Reducing poverty is a matter of political will
“Could this erosion of an already meagre benefit help explain why you can barely walk a block in downtown Montreal without seeing someone begging for change, or why people sleep on the street in minus 30-degree weather? Meanwhile, the Quebec government is sitting on a budget surplus that could reach $4.6 billion this year.”
Op-ed by Richard Goldman, a Montreal lawyer and a lecturer in the McGill School of Social Work
LA TIMES | Campaigns without end: Today’s presidential marathons took root in 1968
“We’re a G-7 country, and we manage to get an election started and finished in six weeks,” said Andrew Potter, a professor at Montreal’s McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.
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GLOBAL NEWS | International Women’s Day
Global Montreal’s Laura Casella interviews McGill Principal Suzanne Fortier for International Women’s Day. Watch here
TVO | Settling Historical Canada
Canadian immigration policy has a checkered past, even as it was essential to building the country we know today. The Agenda discusses how past governments channeled immigrants to diverse parts of Canada.
Interview with Laura Madakoro, Department of History and Classical Studies
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THE GLOBE AND MAIL | Retail’s success hinges on improving the shopping experience
The world of retail is changing at a dizzying pace, and the transformation extends far beyond online shopping. A report issued by the World Economic Forum in 2017 on the future of consumption noted that retail is becoming more “inspirational, exciting, simple and convenient” in order to meet the needs of the empowered consumer.
NATURE | The CRISPR-baby scandal: what’s next for human gene-editing
But others predict that the He affair might propel human gene editing forwards. Jonathan Kimmelman, a bioethicist specializing in human trials of gene therapies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, argues that definitive action in the wake of the scandal could expedite global cooperation on the science and its oversight. “That would stimulate, not hinder, meaningful advance in this area,” he says.
MONTREAL GAZETTE | McGill team part of international group of scientists that identify rare pediatric brain disorder
Pediatric neurologist Genevieve Bernard chats with research assistant Kether Guerrero at the MUHC in Montreal on Monday, Feb. 25, 2019. Bernard joined forces with scientists from the Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine in San Diego to discover a new genetic mutation responsible for a rare paediatric neurodevelopmental condition known as VARS-related disorder.
