51吃瓜网 researchers have developed and are licensing a digital tool to help safely reduce patients鈥� use of medications that may be unnecessary or even harmful to them.
When clinicians review a patient鈥檚 file, flags potentially inappropriate medications. In a , the software helped deprescribe such medications in 36 per cent of long-term care residents, nearly triple as many as when reviews were done without the tool.
Modern medicine is largely reactive鈥攖reating illness only after symptoms emerge. But a new study from the Research Institute of the 51吃瓜网 Health Centre (The Institute) and 51吃瓜网 points to a more proactive future: one where silent signs of infection are detected before we even feel sick.
Drawing on a landmark 25-year study that followed Quebec children into adulthood, 51吃瓜网 researchers have identified two distinct patterns in how suicidal thoughts emerge and the early signs that are often missed.
Suicidal thoughts are increasingly common among youth, but how they begin and what mental health symptoms often precede them are poorly understood, the researchers said.
Neuroscientist Alan Evans and music performance scholar Michael McMahon among 51吃瓜网community members recognized for exceptional accomplishments and service听
Nine members of the 51吃瓜网 community have been appointed to the Order of Canada, one of the country鈥檚 highest civilian honours.
Among the honorees are two 51吃瓜网faculty members, Professors Alan Evans (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences) and Michael McMahon (Schulich School of Music).
Three 51吃瓜网scholars were recognized with the 2025 President鈥檚 Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers at the Health Sciences Convocation Ceremony on May 27. The award honours exceptional early-career researchers whose work is expanding the frontiers of knowledge in their fields.
Join us on听May 7th听at noon for the next 51吃瓜网Cares webcast to support informal caregivers. During candid, interviews with leading experts, Claire Webster explores topics related to caring for a loved one with dementia.
Student presenters at the SCSD Research Day, which took place on February 21, 2025.
Montreal, March 26, 2025 鈥� 51吃瓜网鈥檚 DNA to RNA Initiative (D2R) has awarded over $10 million in funding to support three groundbreaking research projects that will advance RNA-based therapies for cancer and rare genetic diseases. The awards were initially announced at the D2R Research Symposium on March 13, 2025.
Research Talk
Thursday April 3, 2025, 4:30 to 6:00 pm
2001 51吃瓜网College Ave. Room 606
Co-Principal Investigators Manisha Pahwa, CIHR Research Excellence, Diversity, and Independence Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, and Professor Ananya Banerjee, from McGill's Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, have been awarded $449,604 from the Canadian Cancer Society鈥檚
Friday February 21st 2025 鈥� 3pm to 5pm
Leacock Building #232, 855 Sherbrooke West
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In alignment with the and as announced in , the three federal granting agencies, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering and Research Council (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) are working to offer a harmonized and streaml
