Dr. Catherine Hankins, Professor at the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and co-chair of Canada's COVID-19 Immunity Task Force and Nicholas King, Associate Professor in the Biomedical Ethics Unit, and Dick Menzies, Professor at the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, are among the experts quoted by the Montreal Gazette.
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Published on: 14 Jan 2022
Dr. Richard Menzies and Dr. Jonathon Campbell, respectively Professor and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, are featured in La Presse.
"Sans attendre Québec, des chercheurs de McGill, appuyés par des philanthropes, ont pris le taureau par les cornes et lancé à Montréal-Nord un projet pilote de dépistage systématique visant les personnes les plus à risque. Une stratégie qui pourrait « changer la donne » dans la lutte contre la COVID-19, croit le chercheur principal de l’étude. "
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Published on: 5 Mar 2021
Dick Menzies, professor of medicine and of epidemiology and biostatistics at McGill University, and Tim Grant Evans, director of the McGill School of Population and Global Health, co-authored this article.
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Published on: 29 May 2020
Several new medicines have been found to be more effective than traditional ones used to treat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), according to a new international collaborative study led by Dr. Dick Menzies, senior scientist at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) in Montreal. These findings precipitated a complete overhaul of worldwide TB treatment guidelines, with the results of this work published today in the British medical journal The Lancet.
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Published on: 7 Sep 2018
Treatment of latent tuberculosis is set to transform after a pair of studies from the Research-Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) revealed that a shorter treatment was safer and more effective in children and adults compared to the current standard. These findings are published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Published on: 2 Aug 2018
World TB Day is held each year on March 24th and aims to build public awareness for tuberculosis. A disease which despite being curable, remains a destructive epidemic in much of the world.
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Published on: 22 Mar 2016
