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Experts: GLP-1 drugs beyond weight loss

Published: 7 August 2025

Ozempic and Wegovy are widely used to support weight loss and manage diabetes. But could this class of drugs, known as GLP-1 receptor agonists, also help treat heart failure, liver disease and even...

New tool helps seniors reduce unnecessary medications

Published: 4 August 2025

鶹ýվ researchers have developed and are licensing a digital tool to help safely reduce patients’ use of medications that may be unnecessary or even harmful to them....

Montreal researchers use AI and wearable sensors to detect inflammation before symptoms appear

Published: 30 July 2025

Modern medicine is largely reactive—treating illness only after symptoms emerge. But a new study from the Research Institute of the 鶹ýվ Health Centre (The Institute) and 鶹ýվ...

Youth at risk of suicide show early warning signs that adults often miss

Published: 23 July 2025

Drawing on a landmark 25-year study that followed Quebec children into adulthood, 鶹ýվ researchers have identified two distinct patterns in how suicidal thoughts emerge and the early...

Ancient viruses in our DNA may hold clues to what makes us human

Published: 21 July 2025

Fragments of ancient viral DNA once dismissed as “junk” may play a role in controlling our genes, according to a new international study....

Expert: Obesity 

Published: 14 July 2025

About one-third of Canadians are now obese, with women and young adults most affected, according to a new study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. It found obesity rates...

Study reveals trained immunity may cause lung damage

Published: 10 July 2025

Trained immunity – a process being explored in vaccine and therapy development to boost immune defences – appears be counterproductive in certain contexts, researchers at 鶹ýվ and the...

Gender bias holds back female surgeons, study finds

Published: 10 July 2025

Women now make up over half of medical students in Canada, but only one-third of practising surgeons. A new study suggests part of the gap stems from gender norms embedded in workplace culture. The...

Expert: Preventing measles in pregnancy 

Published: 10 June 2025

As measles cases surge in Canada, six babies have been born with congenital measles to unvaccinated mothers in Ontario since last fall. The MMR vaccine isn’t safe during pregnancy, so doctors urge...

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