Montreal is shutting down聽two downtown blocks tonight to allow people to cheer on a team from the city's traditional bete noire: Toronto. The very notion would have seemed far-fetched, until Monday night.聽
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Published on: 13 Jun 2019
Syringes, IV tubing, saline bags, plastic-wrapped drugs, catheters 鈥� hospitals couldn鈥檛 function without plastics.聽While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau鈥檚 pledge to ban single-use plastics as early as 2021 may have noble intentions, not all plastics are evil, experts say.聽
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Published on: 13 Jun 2019
Mortality due to prostate cancer is usually related to its likelihood to metastasize, especially to bone. Prognostic biomarkers are urgently needed to predict disease aggression so that appropriate treatment can be selected. A report in聽The American Journal of Pathology, published by Elsevier, indicates that CCN3, a protein secreted into the extracellular matrix between cells, may be an important factor that promotes prostate cancer invasion of bone and may aid in identifying prostate cancer patients at higher risk of poor outcomes.
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Published on: 12 Jun 2019
Last month, the taxi company Uber began trialling a suite of new features for users of its Exec service 鈥� including a button you can activate if you want to mute your driver. 鈥淨uiet preferred鈥� is the euphemism聽Uber聽is using (you can also toggle it to 鈥渉appy to chat鈥� 鈥� lucky driver). But it appears to bring the dream of being able to choose who and what we listen to a step closer.
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Published on: 12 Jun 2019
There is a common perception that hepatitis B is a disease of adults, transmitted via sexual intercourse or needles. If that were the case, vaccinating babies would be nonsensical.
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Published on: 12 Jun 2019
Doctors in Canada are preparing to restart the hearts of the recently declared dead, a move experts say will lead to a desperately needed new source of donor hearts.
But that raises an ethically fraught question: How can you be dead if your heart is still beating?
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Published on: 11 Jun 2019
Thousands of Montrealers are out on Peel Street Monday night doing the unthinkable: cheering for a Toronto sports team.
鈥淟et鈥檚 go Raptors鈥� and 鈥淲e the North鈥� cheers could be heard for several blocks around the downtown area, where a portion of Peel Street is closed to become Montreal鈥檚 own Jurassic Park.聽
Toronto and Montreal鈥檚 sports rivalry is notorious, but local basketball fans are putting their differences aside and lending their support to the neighbouring province.
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Published on: 11 Jun 2019
Men and women who smoke marijuana could be adding to their infertility woes if they are already struggling to start a family, says an obstetrician-gynecologist who is calling for more research into reproductive aspects of the recreational drug that may be increasingly used in Canada since it was legalized.
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Published on: 10 Jun 2019
Some entomologists are sounding the alarm that native bees could be in danger of being wiped out, because of the popularity of urban beekeeping.
鈥淭he danger is that we鈥檙e probably losing species and don鈥檛 even know it,鈥� says Gail MacInnis, a PhD entomology candidate at 麻豆传媒网站.聽 Something needs to be done, she says, to control the number of honeybees being raised.
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Published on: 10 Jun 2019
Elliot Lifson, Professor of Practice and Desautels Faculty Advisory Board member at 麻豆传媒网站, was honoured for teaching excellence at the university鈥檚 Desautels Faculty of Management Convocation ceremony last week.
鈥淸Lifson] has been sharing his expertise in the area of Strategy & Organization at Desautels since 2005,鈥� says a 麻豆传媒网站 statement. 鈥淒escribed by his graduate students as engaging, humble, and extremely knowledgeable, Elliot is a strong believer in integrating industry expertise with classroom theory
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Published on: 6 Jun 2019
When Laurie Hendren found out she had breast cancer in 2014, she wanted to learn everything she could about her condition, but she soon realized how hard it is for patients to access their own medical information. The聽麻豆传媒网站 computer science professor, who had dedicated her career to research and sharing knowledge, shared her intense聽frustration with聽her radiation oncologist, Dr. Tarek Hijal.
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Published on: 5 Jun 2019
n 2007, a team of mining executives and geologists prospecting about 540 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay hit a motherlode of high-grade nickel, copper, platinum and palladium in the 2.7-billion-year-old rock.聽The area the dozers and graders could soon be heading into is a vast but delicate carbon reservoir that cleans the air we breathe and helps to regulate the temperature of the planet.
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Published on: 3 Jun 2019
The study, published in the聽Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, shows clearly for the first time that epinephrine in a pre-hospital setting is superior to antihistamines, lead author Dr. Moshe Ben-Shoshan, a pediatric allergist and immunologist at the Montreal Children鈥檚 Hospital, said in an interview Thursday.
In most cases, antihistamines are used in place of epinephrine, 鈥渂ut epinephrine should always be first.鈥�
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Published on: 31 May 2019
Recruitment for the 2019 INFINITI Engineering Academy closes on a high note with another Canadian student registration record. 10 finalists from across Canada will compete next week to secure one of the seven, one-year placements with INFINITI and Renault F1庐 Team.聽The two-day finals will take place on June 5th聽and 6th聽in Montreal, trackside prior to the FORMULA 1 PIRELLI GRAND PRIX DU CANADA 2019. One of the finalists is Thomas Lee from 麻豆传媒网站.聽
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Published on: 31 May 2019
鈥淚n the 21st century with so much internationalism, we really need to be giving all children the opportunity to learn another language,鈥� says Fred Genesee, an expert on dual-language education in Canada at 麻豆传媒网站 in Montreal. 鈥淲e鈥檙e not talking about icing on the cake anymore. We鈥檙e talking about a life skill that actually gives these kids a real advantage.鈥�
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Published on: 31 May 2019
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