Mindfulness training shows promise for maintaining weight loss

Published: 23 November 2017

Can mindfulness training help overweight people shed pounds and keep them off?  McGill University researchers surveyed the growing body of studies investigating that question, and came away...

Meeting a microbe in the morning or in the evening: is it all the same?

Published: 8 September 2017

Does the time of day matter when our body is infected by a parasite? According to new research from McGill University, it matters a great deal.

MUHC study calls for action to help adolescents with diabetes transition to adult care

Published: 17 August 2017

Adolescence can be a turbulent period of life, with struggles to establish autonomy, identity issues and risk-taking behaviours. For young adults with a chronic illness such as type 1 diabetes,...

Newly discovered pathway for pain processing could lead to new treatments

Published: 8 August 2017

The discovery of a new biological pathway involved in pain processing offers hope of using existing cancer drugs to replace the use of opioids in chronic pain treatment, according to scientists at...

Improving health, one step at a time

Published: 26 November 2015

It may be surprising, but Canadians who live in densely-populated areas where stores, banks, schools and other services are close by do not walk as much as they should.

Diabetes drug found not to cause pancreatic cancer

Published: 22 February 2016

By Tod Hoffman, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research...

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