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This approach has never been attempted in audiology but has been used in psychology with patients being followed for depression. It has proven possible to predict, on the basis of facial expressions, whether a therapy would be effective.

Health

Phantom noises and hypersensitivity to sound: tech to the rescue?

3 June 2021

Article

Pediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI) is particularly prevalent in toddlers; they’re more likely to be injured because they have a lower sense of danger and are still developing physically. But parents and clinicians have trouble detecting symptoms of trauma, given the toddler’s limited verbal skills.

Health

Head injury and concussion in toddlers: early detection of symptoms is vital

1 June 2021

Press release

The study was designed to determine whether colchicine, commonly used in cardiology, could prevent the risk of severe complications from COVID-19.

Health

Colchicine study published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

27 May 2021

Article

What return-to-work plan should employers adopt, knowing that two out of three people want to continue working remotely?

Society

Back to the office: a major post-pandemic test for employers

27 May 2021

Article

Society

Are you happy or angry in front of the screen?

25 May 2021

Article

Health

A brand new cocktail to fight HIV

20 May 2021

Press release

Vincent De Guire, Nancy Schoenbrunner and Alexis Vallée-Bélisle, three of the five co-founders of Anasens

Health

Anasens: a UdeM start-up with a bright future!

19 May 2021

Article

In October and November of 2020, only 3.3 per cent of children had antibodies. By April 2021, in the third wave, 8.9 per cent of the students tested had antibodies.

Health

A small minority of Montreal children have had COVID-19

18 May 2021

Press release

In one of her recent studies, Arbour observed that the T-cells from patients respond much more strongly to interleukin 15 (IL-15) than those from healthy controls.

Health

Multiple sclerosis: how to halt its progression?

14 May 2021

Article

Gilles Brassard

Science

Gilles Brassard named an international member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences

13 May 2021

Article

Science

Roger David Kornberg, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in chemistry, to speak May 20

12 May 2021

Article

Health

A personalized anti-cancer vaccine that works in mice

11 May 2021

Press release

Health

Cystic fibrosis: towards better treatment and stronger lungs

5 May 2021

Press release

Diego Urbina and Romain Charles from Europe, Sukhrob Kamolov, Alexey Sitev, Alexandr Smoleevskiy and from Russia and Wang Yue from China

Health

Feeling confinement in the gut

23 April 2021

Press release

Funded by Canada’s National Sciences and Engineering Coucil, the survey was completed using open-source software in January and February 2020 by 140 Canadian faculty members.

Science

Sharing open data: sometimes costly but mostly good

20 April 2021

Article

Yellowknife's Back Bay in Winter in Canada's Northwest Territories

Science

Measuring climate change: it's in the hands of the people of the Far North

9 April 2021

Article

It’s an $8M, multi-institution collaboration aimed at studying the developmental origin of neurological conditions in order to find new ways of treating them.

Health

NeuroBasis, a new multi-institution project, is launched

30 March 2021

Press release

More than 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy, according to the World Health Organization, with nearly 20,000 Canadians diagnosed every year.

Health

Predicting when epileptic seizures will happen

26 March 2021

Article

Health

BMI1, a promising gene to protect against Alzheimer's disease

23 March 2021

Press release

Society

Does ‘harsh parenting’ lead to smaller brains?

22 March 2021

Press release

Health

HIV: an antidiabetic drug to reduce chronic inflammation

18 March 2021

Press release

Food workers have been at high risk of infection with COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic.

Health

COVID-19: how does it affect the people preparing food?

17 March 2021

Press release

In Montreal, for every 1,000 black English-speaking children, 19.6 had their situation assessed by the youth centre, compared to 5.9 for other visible minority children and 3.5 for white children.

Society

Black children are overrepresented in Quebec's child welfare system

16 March 2021

Article

Quebec’s strict confinement rules have greatly reduced the possibility to prepare for the death of loved ones, to be able to thank them, say goodbye and bring some peace to the relationship – all steps that help survivors grieve.

Society

COVID-19: when mourning is put on hold

10 March 2021

Article

The Quebec study will build on an existing CITF-funded study named EnCORE, which has been determining the number of students and of children at daycares who have SARS-CoV-2 in four Montreal neighbourhoods.

Health

How many teachers have had COVID-19?

4 March 2021

Press release

Health

4 million pregnancies and over 20 years of data

3 March 2021

Press release

Morbid obesity is caused by the inaction of melanocortin, a hormone that regulates appetite and energy expenditure.

Health

A new way beckons to treat severe obesity

26 February 2021

Article

Patients enrolled at IPCO will be followed for one year and will go through a series of tests to provide data on the possible effects of the disease and early detection of anomalies.

Health

A post-COVID-19 research clinic welcomes its first patients

23 February 2021

Press release

Irina Rish

Science

Irina Rish speaks on the role of women in science

11 February 2021

Press release

Diabetic retinopathy is caused by a degeneration of the small blood vessels that feed the retina and that regrow abnormally.

Health

Discovery of a new drug for diabetic retinopathy

11 February 2021

Press release

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