Jun 14 2022 — Jean-Benoit Legault, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — MONTREAL — Hundreds of thousands of high school students in Canada will be given training on how to respond to someone overdosing on opioids, including on how to administer naloxone — a drug used to reverse the effects of overdoses. The Advanced Coronary Treatment Foundation is announcing Tuesday that its new training program will be […]
Jun 11 2022 — Jean-Benoit Legault, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — MONTREAL — A Canadian is playing a major role in the World Health Organizations' fight against monkeypox. Dr. Rosamund Lewis, the technical lead for the effort to combat a global outbreak of the virus at the WHO's Health Emergencies Programme, grew up in Thunder Bay, Ont., and Ottawa. A graduate of McGill University's school of […]
Mar 24 2022 — Jean-Benoit Legault, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — MONTREAL — A mosquito net coated with a new insecticide that makes the insects unable to move or fly has reduced cases of malaria in children by about 40 per cent, according to a new study conducted in Tanzania involving Canadian researchers. The two-year study involved 39,000 Tanzanian households. In randomized trials with over 4,500 […]
Feb 7 2022 — Jean-Benoit Legault, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — MONTREAL — A bigger, more interactive and more modern Holocaust museum will be opening its doors in Montreal's Plateau Mont-Royal neighbourhood in 2025. If everything goes as planned, the opening of the relocated Montreal Holocaust Museum will coincide with the 80-year anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, and museum director Daniel Amar […]
Jan 28 2021 — Jean-Benoit Legault, The Canadian Press — MONTREAL — A new research centre created at Montreal's Polytechnique university will aim to protect ships from pirates — and they're not talking about Blackbeard or Captain Kidd. Canada’s Maritime Cyber Security Centre of Excellence will combine the expertise of two Polytechnique researchers, Quebec cybersecurity startup Neptune Cyber and Davie Shipbuilding. The five-year research project […]
Oct 21 2020 — Jean-Benoit Legault, The Canadian Press — MONTREAL — A Montreal company has unveiled what it boasts is the most accurate map of global methane concentrations ever made. On Wednesday, GHGSat unveiled Pulse, an interactive map available for free online that has a resolution of approximately two kilometres by two kilometres. GHGSat produced the map from data generated by the company's satellites […]
Jun 3 2020 — Jean-Benoit Legault, The Canadian Press — MONTREAL — Hydroxychloroquine is not effective in preventing the development of COVID-19 in people exposed to the novel coronavirus, a new study involving Canadian researchers concludes. The results are published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. The clinical trial was led in Canada by Dr. Todd Lee and Dr. Emily McDonald of the Research Institute […]
Apr 30 2020 — Jean-Benoit Legault, The Canadian Press — MONTREAL — The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre says it will soon conduct the first Canadian test of a robot that uses ultraviolet light to disinfect. The Montreal institute moved to order the robot just as the COVID-19 pandemic was emerging in China and Europe to see if the technology could be useful […]
Apr 9 2020 — Jean-Benoit Legault, The Canadian Press — MONTREAL — Researchers from across Canada will collaborate on a vast clinical trial to study whether the plasma of recovered patients can be used to treat COVID-19. The study, the largest to date ever done on the subject, will include about 50 Canadian institutions, including 15 in Quebec. "It's a therapy to treat the illness," […]
Jan 31 2020 — Jean-Benoit Legault, The Canadian Press — MONTREAL — A Quebec hunter had to be airlifted to hospital this week following what was described as a rare seal attack on a Nova Scotia island. Alexis Boudreault, 29, and nine other hunters were on Pictou Island Tuesday when the attack occurred. Only four of them were carrying hakapiks — clubs tipped with sharp hooks — after federal fisheries officers confiscated the […]
Dec 5 2019 — Jean-Benoit Legault, The Canadian Press — MONTREAL — A Quebec hospital is touting the use of medical hypnosis after the results of a pilot project suggested it can reduce pain and anxiety in patients. The trial conducted at the Montreal Children's Hospital also resulted in a reduction in the amount of medication administered to perform medical imaging procedures. "Patients don't move. It […]
Aug 21 2019 — Jean-Benoit Legault, The Canadian Press — MONTREAL — Autism has become so overdiagnosed that within five to 10 years there could be almost no difference between groups of people who have been diagnosed with the condition and those who haven't, a Montreal researcher warns following the publication of a new study. A new meta-analysis published Wednesday in JAMA Psychiatry that analyzed 11 previous major studies […]
Aug 12 2019 — Jean-Benoit Legault, The Canadian Press — MONTREAL — Teens and young adults who use electronic cigarettes are significantly more likely to use cannabis as well, according to a new study co-authored by a Canadian researcher. Pediatrician Nicholas Chadi's analysis of previous research, published in JAMA Pediatrics, found that the likelihood of marijuana use was three to four times higher among youth who vaped. One […]
Jun 23 2019 — Jean-Benoit Legault, The Canadian Press — MONTREAL — Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques will return to Earth on Monday following a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Raffi Kuyumjian, the doctor for the Canadian Space Agency, explains that the 49-year-old astronaut will undergo a long recovery as his body adjusts from weightlessness. -------------- The Canadian Press: How will Saint-Jacques feel when he returns to Earth? […]
May 18 2019 — Jean-Benoit Legault, The Canadian Press — MONTREAL — A team of Montreal university researchers has developed an audible hockey puck they say could revolutionize the sport for blind players. For years, visually impaired hockey players have used a tomato juice can or a steel container filled with small balls as a puck. The improvised devices work, but players have trouble finding them on the […]