Philadelphia Inquirer - US panel will consider home AIDS test

mardi 15 mai 2012

A rapid home test for HIV, similar to early pregnancy tests, will be considered by a federal advisory committee on Tuesday, a move that many public health experts believe could eventually help calm Americans' fears of HIV, leading them to view it as just another serious chronic illness.
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San Francisco Chronicle - Maternity leave basics: Canada vs. the US

lundi 14 mai 2012

Maternity and parental benefits provided for the birth or adoption of a baby varies wildly from country to country. The United States is part of a very exclusive group - but not for the reasons you might suspect.
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The Atlantic - The war between organic and conventional farming misses the point

lundi 14 mai 2012

The real dispute is over valid but competing priorities. On April 23, the science journal Nature published a paper titled "Comparing the yields of organic and conventional agriculture," by Verena Seufert et al.
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Forbes - Employees first, customers second: Why it really works in the market

lundi 14 mai 2012

(Desautels Karl Moore): When I worked for IBM, the customer was always right. In today’s column I interview Vineet Nayar, CEO of HCL Technologies, one of the largest I.T. outsourcing firms in the world.
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Montreal Gazette - A commuter train? An airport shuttle? Let's get on track; a middle ground exists, so long as all parties involved are willing to compromise

lundi 14 mai 2012

The saga surrounding the Train de l'Ouest and the airport shuttle took an even more bizarre turn this month when the Train de l'Ouest coalition flatout rejected Aéroports de Montréal's proposal to build an elevated light-rail link to the airport in the Highway 20/720 corridor.
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The Province - Researchers' discovery offers hope for cancer, heart disease miracle drugs

dimanche 6 mai 2012

A team of University of Ottawa researchers has solved the mystery of how our bodies adapt to low-oxygen environments, raising the prospect that life-threatening conditions such as cancer, stroke and heart disease could someday be successfully treated using a simple, antibiotic-like drug.
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Baltimore Sun - Want to quit smoking? Try acupuncture or hypnosis

dimanche 6 mai 2012

Acupuncture and hypnosis have been promoted as drug-free ways to help smokers kick the habit, and there is some evidence that they work, according to a research review that looked at 14 international studies.
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Le Devoir - Le cerveau est bilingue

samedi 5 mai 2012

Professeur au Département de psychologie de l'Université McGill, Fred Genesee fait le point sur « les mythes et les malentendus entourant l'acquisition de deux langues chez l'enfant ».
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Montreal Gazette - Homeopathic remedies safe – but not risk free

samedi 5 mai 2012

(Chemistry professor Joe Schwarcz): Critics of homeopathy have been known to swallow entire bottles of homeopathic pills to make the point they contain nothing but sugar.
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Montreal Gazette - Crime & mistaken memory

samedi 5 mai 2012

Psychological and neuroscience research have chipped away at the credence we give to witness accounts, and shown how memories can be unwittingly manipulated. And yet eyewitness identification remains a very important piece of evidence in many criminal cases.
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Le Devoir - Faire l'histoire en mettant en mots l'histoire; « Fides ne s'est pas figé dans une école en particulier »

samedi 5 mai 2012

Fides apparaît comme une figure emblématique de l'histoire de l'édition québécoise en raison de ses 75 ans, qui sont marqués par la variété de ses publications dans des domaines éclectiques.
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Montreal Gazette - Why stiffer sentences for elder abuse won't solve the problem

mercredi 2 mai 2012

(Op-ed by Mark J. Yaffe, professor of family medicine at McGill University and St. Mary's Hospital Centre): Elder abuse is an important, frequently missed and under-reported cause of morbidity and mortality in older adults.
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Montreal Gazette - Ash trees in West Island threatened by beetle

mercredi 2 mai 2012

West Island homeowners have officially been notified that the emerald ash borer beetle is on its way, which could likely kill off thousands of trees in the coming years.
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Globe and Mail - How to inspire the troops

mardi 1 mai 2012

Karl Moore of the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University, Talking Management for The Globe and Mail speaks to General Dean Milner who was Canada’s top officer in Afghanistan until recently, and is now Number Two at the III Corps, Fort Hood, Texas.
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Montreal Gazette - My temporary visa to the land of the disabled

lundi 30 avril 2012

(Gil Troy, history professor at McGill): ...For the first time in my life, I entered a crowded room full of partying people enjoying themselves and not really thinking about who they might bump into - literally - while I was hobbling on crutches.
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CTV - CTV newsmaker: Kappy Flanders on palliative care

lundi 30 avril 2012

Caring for family members who are severely ill, debilitated, or dying can be an all-encompassing task. All too often people sacrifice their own health and needs in favour of helping their partner of family member. But burnout can be a severe problem, and often overlaps with "compassion fatigue."
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Huffington Post - Letting go of the unfeasible could boost well-being: study

samedi 28 avril 2012

Letting things go when they are no longer a feasible option could help to improve your well-being and fitness levels, according to a new study. Researchers from Concordia University and McGill University found that among breast cancer survivors, letting go of unrealistic goals and making new, achievable ones is linked with a higher quality of life and an increase in physical activity.
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Le Devoir - Livre : Michel Biron, le roman québécois

samedi 28 avril 2012

Le roman écrase, dans le monde littéraire, tous les autres genres, en popularité comme en ventes. Pour cerner le phénomène au Québec, Michel Biron, prof de littérature à McGill, cisèle, en une centaine de pages, une histoire analytique du roman québécois.
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Montreal Gazette - Joe Schwarz: Homeopathy relies on extreme dilution

samedi 28 avril 2012

When I dilute my chicken soup, its taste suffers. When I take one Aspirin tablet instead of two, my headache doesn’t resolve. When I use less detergent, my clothes do not come out as clean. Yet, in the topsy-turvy world of homeopathy, less is more.
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Montreal Gazette - Opinion: In the Charles Taylor conviction, a warning to other national leaders

vendredi 27 avril 2012

(René Provost, professor of law at McGill): The Sierra Leone Special Court sitting in The Hague has convicted the former president of Liberia, Charles Taylor, of terrorism, murder, rape, sexual slavery, using child soldiers, enslavement and pillage, amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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