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Biological markers for teen depression

keila.depape@mcgill.ca — Thu, 22 May 2025 15:17:16 +0000

Using a novel lab method they developed, �鶹ɫ��Ƭ researchers have identified nine molecules in the blood that were elevated in teens diagnosed with depression. These molecules also predicted how symptoms might progress over time.

The findings of the clinical study could pave the way for earlier detection, before symptoms worsen and become hard to treat.

Expert: Ozempic’s safety, efficacy in obesity treatment backed by new research

keila.depape@mcgill.ca — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 18:33:20 +0000

New research points to the potential of GLP-1 agonists — the class of drugs that includes Ozempic — to treat obesity safely. Originally developed to manage Type 2 diabetes, these medications have emerged as powerful weight-loss tools, though their long-term impacts are still being explored.

�鶹ɫ��Ƭ aims to be a world leader in making dentistry sustainable

keila.depape@mcgill.ca — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 18:21:00 +0000

In response to growing concerns about climate change, �鶹ɫ��Ƭ researchers are exploring how even a routine dental visit can become a more sustainable practice

The Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences is calculating the carbon footprint of its entire operation, including several clinics that serve the public. The goal is to become among the first fully sustainable dental faculties in the world.

GLOBE & MAIL | Palliative-care advocate Kappy Flanders helped develop a blueprint for a good death

laurie.devine@mcgill.ca — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 13:34:26 +0000

Petite, fierce and focussed, Kappy Flanders became a warrior for palliative care because she wanted people to understand that dying was a part of living, as important a passage as being born, and something that could not be brushed aside because the thought of it was distasteful or frightening.

After all, as she once told a �鶹ɫ��Ƭ interviewer, “everyone is terminal at some point.”

CBC THE CURENT | Students raise $30,000 to thank health-care workers with 'a good, decent meal'

laurie.devine@mcgill.ca — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 20:55:42 +0000

A group of medical students in Montreal have raised about $30,000 to deliver hot meals to health-care workers — in turn helping to support the local restaurants preparing them.

Expert: Black Friday shopping

frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 21:33:56 +0000

Black Friday is just around the corner, but Black Friday deals are already here. While the exact date of the North American shopping extravaganza this year is Nov. 29, many retailers have turned what used to be a weekend of special deals into a weeks-long marathon of advertising and price-slashing. (Global News)

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