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Some pet owners who use the dog run in King George Park in Westmount are calling on the City to make changes because they're worried about potential health effects from all the sand in the area.

Dr. Maxime Cormier is a respirologist at the Montreal General Hospital and an assistant professor at 鶹ýվ.

He says that silica aside, the level of dust shown in the report could be enough to affect someone's breathing, even if they are only in the park for a short while. 

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Published on: 24 Jul 2019

Taking testosterone might sound like a good idea for an older man, but a new study suggests the treatment might be bad news for his heart.

Men who took it showed a slightly increased risk of heart attack and stroke in the first few years.

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Published on: 24 Jul 2019

Researchers have found that Inuit from northern Quebec are genetically distinct from any present-day population in the world, and say studying the genes of minority Indigenous populations in Canada can help deliver better health care to these populations.

In a study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers mapped the complete genetic profile of Inuit in the Nunavik region — what they claim is a first. Researchers then homed in to study the effects these genetic variants may have on disorders like brain aneurysms.

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Published on: 24 Jul 2019

When your job is growing up, the most important thing you can do is explore your world. It starts with fingers and thumbs and gradually expands to brightly coloured toys, then maybe to sandboxes and potato bugs. We want to bring the world to our children, but sometimes parents stop short of visiting museums. The museums will recover from a little boisterousness, and there are ways to visit at a low cost — many waive their fees on certain days of the month. Here are five for you to consider.

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Published on: 22 Jul 2019

The Guardian made headlines worldwide for making afew simple changes to its style guide. 

The British daily newspaper announced that its staff would no longer be using the term “climate change” to describe the global rise of temperatures and disruption to standard weather patterns due to human causes. Instead, they’ve begun describing this process as a “climate emergency, crisis, or breakdown.”

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Published on: 22 Jul 2019

When it comes to options for safe drinking water, experts say Canadians are often confused.

Some people still hold the belief that tap water in particular isn’t safe to drink, while others believe bottled water is so-called “healthier” than tap or filtered water.

Ronald Gehr, an associate professor at the civil engineering department at 鶹ýվ in Montreal, told Global News there’s plenty of misinformation out there about bottled, filtered and tap water.

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Published on: 18 Jul 2019

Arthritis Research Canada, the largest clinical arthritis research institution in North America , continues to grow with its newest centre located at 鶹ýվ .

Drs.  Deborah Da Costa ,  Michal Abrahamowicz , Susan Bartlett and Marie Hudson will join the new location and bring with them a collective and extensive knowledge of arthritis research.

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Published on: 18 Jul 2019

It's the height of the summer travel season, and if the country's major airports are anything to go by, commercial flights are humming along at a brisk clip, but there's not a 737 Max jet in sight — and likely won't be for months.

There is a huge need for the planes, said Karl Moore, an associate professor at the Desautel Faculty of Management at 鶹ýվ who studies corporate strategy and organization and has advised several major airlines, including Air Canada.

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Published on: 18 Jul 2019

In October 2017, a telescope operated by the University of Hawaii picked up a strange cigar-shaped object (artist rendering below), which had slingshotted past the sun at a more-than-brisk top speed of 196,000 miles per hour. Scientists at the university dubbed it ‘Oumuamua, Hawaiian for scout, and at first labeled it an asteroid, then a comet, but agreed that it came from another solar system.

But while scientists tossing around the idea of alien life may find a rapt public audience, they can also draw cynical, even hostile reactions from their fellow scientists

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Published on: 16 Jul 2019

Many of the brightest, weirdest phenomena in space come from cataclysmic events like explosions or collisions. But many fast radio bursts (FRBs), one of the most mysterious space signals we’ve seen, must not. That might mean that they are all part of a class of FRB that we previously thought might be rare.

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Published on: 16 Jul 2019

At-home DNA testing kits have become a mainstream product for offering a look into a user's genetic heritage and even health pre-dispositions. 

While they can offer insight into one's lineage, the results are often an approximation of genetics combined with results from their database of customers.

"It's pretty easy to identify siblings or first cousins in their database of participants," said 鶹ýվ human genetics professor Simon Gravel.

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Published on: 16 Jul 2019

June 24, 2019 | Climate change affects many aspects of people's lives. As it is a common source of worry to doctors and economists alike, the proposed solutions to climate change are numerous. Chris Ragan, director of the Max Bell School of Public Policy and Courtney Howard, clinical associate professor at the Cumming School of Medicine (University of Calgary) argue that carbon pricing is the right solution. This piece connects the dots between health outcomes and worsening climate crisis, while exposing its societal financial costs. 

Classified as: climate change, max bell school of public policy, max bell school, chris ragan
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Published on: 15 Jul 2019

A new study led by Dany Doiron, a research associate at the 鶹ýվ Health Center found that even moderate levels of air pollution can cause lung function impairment that rivals the damage caused by smoking. Researchers studied 303,887 British men and women, with data on lung health gathered by physical examination and air pollution statistics geographically coded to the participants’ home addresses. 

The effects were particularly strong in low income populations and in people working where there is high exposure to contaminated air.

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Published on: 11 Jul 2019

Some people see alcohol as something that is good for your health, if you consume it in moderate doses. While almost everyone knows alcohol can cause birth defects if you drink while pregnant or will ruin your liver if you drink excessively over many years, people tend to believe that low levels of alcohol consumption are safe, if not beneficial.

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Published on: 10 Jul 2019

Bombardier plans to cut several hundred jobs at its Thunder Bay, Ont., facility, according to federal and provincial government sources. 

Ontario Transportation Minister Caroline Mulroney said the provincial government has spoken to Bombardier executives "to express our disappointment that their company has taken this step." Bombardier is one of the biggest train and airplane manufacturers in the world. It is headquartered in Montreal, but has facilities around the globe.

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Published on: 10 Jul 2019

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