McGill Global Health Programs Director Madhu Pai is editor of a unique collection of papers printed as a supplement to GP Clinics. This supplement is an effort to engage and educate GPs and private practitioners and to share with them the current best practices on TB diagnosis and treatment. The book is accompanied by an interactive web platform where practioners can test their TB knowledge and find additional resources to update their practice.
November 2015 | Sarah Brauner-Otto presented her work on Canadian low fertility at the United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Policy Responses to Low Fertility.
Discovery of how environmental memories may be transmitted from a man to his grandchildren
October 2015 | A recently published study by Eran Shor, Alex Miltsov and their colleagues at Stony Brook university on the media’s underrepresentation of women and its possible explanations is featured at the ASA's "Recent Selected Articles" section. Their paper is already receiving wide media coverage.
September 2015 | Morton Weinfeld was interviewed on CBC TV News on the controversy over the niqab in Canada. The interview is available here.
Canadian cities that have significant visible minority and Aboriginal populations have bigger police forces than those without. No matter what the actual level of crime.
Insecticides that are sprayed in orchards and fields across North America may be more toxic to spiders than scientists previously believed.
Even jumping spiders have personalities scientists have discovered. A "shy" individual will not make the same choices as a "bold" individual. This means that some individuals, because of their personality type, will capture more prey than others, and will therefore have a larger effect on local ecosystems.