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Given the benefits for language development and memory, Audrey Delcenserie encourages parents to learn and expose their deaf child to sign language even if the child will receive a cochlear implant.

Health

Got a cochlear implant? You should still sign.

25 April 2024

Article

People in Quebec and the rest of Canada are living longer and the population is aging. The number of people living with a neurocognitive disorder in Canada is projected to increase by 187 per cent over the next 30 years.

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Eldercare: urgent action needed to protect seniors’ rights

21 March 2024

Article

Miriam Beauchamp and Dominique Dupont

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Concussions in young children: symptoms still present three months later

21 March 2024

Article

Pascal Chartrand and Éric Lécuyer

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Two winners of the Innovative Therapies for Hereditary Ataxias competition at UdeM

18 March 2024

Brief

The scientific literature is clear: amyloid-beta oligomers accumulate in the brain one to two decades before Alzheimer’s disease is diagnosed.

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Decoding sleep to reveal our state of health

15 March 2024

Article

The new study unravels some of the molecular intricacies of Ebola virus replication, shedding light on key proteins and pathways involved in the process.

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Ebola: scientists reveal a new way it replicates

15 March 2024

Article

In Quebec, one in three patients who end up in the emergency room are struggling with a mental-health problem because they can’t access services or have no support network.

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Mental health: Taming the beast

13 March 2024

Article

Using cutting-edge technologies including endoscopy, angiography and fluoroscopy, the CEMI is unique in Canada. In the United States, there are only three such centers with this equipment.

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New veterinary centre of excellence is the only one of its kind in Canada

12 March 2024

Article

If you gaze directly at the sun, the main risk is that it will burn the retina. This damage can be reversible, but it can also cause permanent loss of vision.

Health

Looking at the sun, safely

11 March 2024

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The general interns heading to Kuujjuaq will have a chance to discover the region's breathtaking landscape and meet the exceptional people who live on this land, but they'll also face the challenge of running a clinic.

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Veterinary students join pilot project in Nunavik

7 March 2024

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This study shows that during the pollen season, trees increase a child’s risk of actually developing asthma, possibly due to prolonged pollen exposure.

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Living near leafy trees doesn’t always protect kids from asthma

5 March 2024

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The study highlights the urgent need for strategies to improve access to seafood for coastal First Nations.

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Fewer fish, worse health: the climate effect

29 February 2024

Article

Across Canada, sickle cell disease affects nearly 6,000 people, mostly of African, Haitian, Indian or the Middle Eastern origin.

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A risky mix of two diseases

29 February 2024

Article

When stress is chronic, adaptive responses can negatively impact the body’s cardiovascular, neuroendocrine, inflammatory and metabolic systems.

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Stress is higher for women in long-term relationships

19 February 2024

Article

Food abundance or scarcity seems to influence the extent of the role played by the genes of the mother and the unborn baby.

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How the brain develops in unborn babies

19 February 2024

Press release

Certain aromas seem to have a positive effect on performance and may even reduce perceived effort.

Health

Can smells improve your athletic performance?

16 February 2024

Article

Guided by an external magnetic field, miniature biocompatible robots, made of magnetizable iron oxide nanoparticles, can theoretically provide medical treatment in a very targeted manner.

Health

Treating liver cancer with microrobots

14 February 2024

Press release

The ring-shaped heart tissues are printed with a bioink containing a patient's stem cells.

Health

A "heart on a chip"

14 February 2024

Press release

In the study, patients received just one shot of UBX1325, and the positive effects on their vision lasted at least six months.

Health

New eye drug may someday help diabetic patients

6 February 2024

Press release

In their work published earlier this month in Hormones and Behavior, the researchers were able to demonstrate a link between higher exposure to gender-related stigma and a pattern of cortisol variation that was blunted, sluggish and flattened.

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How stigma hurts trans health

2 February 2024

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There are devices that produce “coloured noise, whether it be white noise, which combines all audible frequencies; pink noise, which amplifies the lower frequencies and reduces the higher ones; or brown noise, which skews even more strongly towards the low frequencies.

Health

Can “coloured noise” really improve our sleep?

29 January 2024

Article

Phage-inducible chromosomal minimalist islands (PICMIs) are changing the way scientists think about life in the ocean.

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Tiny hitchhikers: scientists uncover new "mini-satellites" in sea bacteria

24 January 2024

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This study opens up new avenues for research and non-pharmacological approaches to improving the health of people born preterm, and underscores the importance of taking preterm birth into account in medical care at all ages.

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Prematurity may later impact cardiovascular and muscular health

24 January 2024

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Chewing increases blood flow, and therefore cell oxygenation, in brain areas important for cognition.

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The complexity of chewing

23 January 2024

Article

Researchers around the world work to identify effective treatments and some are pinning their hopes on tau, a protein whose accumulation in the brain is associated with the onset of Alzheimer’s.

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Looking at tau and its role in Alzheimer’s

18 January 2024

Article

Chronic pain, which is defined as pain that lasts for more than six months, affects one in four Canadians—some 7.63 million people over the age of 15—according to 2019 data.

Health

You're getting sleeeepy... now where does it hurt?

12 January 2024

Article

While “neurotypical” children can also be prone to aggressive behaviour, it seems to be more frequent and intense in young people with neurodevelopmental disorders.

Health

Decoding aggressive behaviour in autistic children

6 December 2023

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Artificial intelligence seems to be an essential part of the growth of the healthcare industry.

Health

ChatGPT and rehab: a mystery that requires further investigation

4 December 2023

Article

Nabil G. Seidah and Martin Sauvageau

Health

New hope for patients with NAFLD

1 December 2023

Press release

Health

3D printing of heart valves: a major breakthrough

30 November 2023

Press release

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