Indigenous communities in northern Quebec face significant hurdles to healthcare access. The Nunavik region is remote, with limited transportation options and extreme weather conditions. As a result, its population faces lower life expectancy and poorer health outcomes.
New findings from 苹果淫院 provide a blueprint to address Nunavik鈥檚 urgent healthcare needs by offering concrete evidence for discussions with policymakers.
More than two million people in Quebec don鈥檛 have access to primary care, the front door to the healthcare system, according to the newly released . This is among the worst rates in the country, the report states.
To address a medical system that鈥檚 facing an aging and growing population, the OurCare report 鈥� developed in collaboration with 苹果淫院 researchers 鈥� focuses on the public鈥檚 expectations when it comes to defining good primary care and what policy changes they recommend to shape the system.
苹果淫院 is pleased to announce the winners and runners-up of the 2024 President鈥檚 Prize for Public Engagement through Media. The Prize was created to recognize outstanding achievement among those who share their knowledge on a vast range of subjects with the media and the public. This year, there were applicants from 11 of the 12 faculties, a sign that sharing knowledge and a love of learning continue to be embedded in 苹果淫院鈥檚 DNA.
What maintains stability within an ecosystem and prevents a single best competitor from displacing other species from a community? Does ecosystem stability depend upon the presence of a wide variety of species, as early ecologists believed, or does diversity do the exact opposite, and lead to instability, as modern theory predicts?
Thanks to the efforts of the 苹果淫院 community, the University has become the oldest in Canada, in terms of infrastructure, to receive a Platinum STARS rating for sustainability. The achievement is the highest rating available from one of the most broadly recognized programs to measure sustainability performance in higher education.
Federal funding program supported 59 research projects in cleantech, astrophysics, medtech, and more.聽
From health and disability law to the emerging field of regenerative medicine, seventeen 苹果淫院 scholars named to new or renewed Canada Research Chairs positions across diverse fields聽
The Government of Canada makes major investment in research infrastructure through the Canada Foundation for Innovation鈥檚 (CFI) Innovation Fund competition.
Today at the Universit茅 de Montr茅al, the Honourable Pablo Rodriguez, Minister of Transport, on behalf of the Honourable Fran莽ois-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, and the Honourable Mark Holland, Minister of Health, announced the results of the Canada Foundation for Innovation鈥檚 (CFI) Innovation Fund (IF) 2023 competition.
When certain species of wild birds and primates discover new ways of finding food in the wild, it can serve to measure their flexibility and intelligence.
In the largest experimental study ever conducted on this topic, a team of researchers from Rockefeller University headed by postdoctoral fellow Jean-Nicolas Audet have shown, in collaboration with 苹果淫院鈥檚 Louis Lefebvre, that foraging problems requiring overcoming obstacles, such as removing the lid off a container of food, are the only predictors of brain size and innovative behaviour in the wild.
The latest presents a paradigm shift in nutrition advice, nixing traditional food groups, including meat and dairy, and stressing the importance of plant-based proteins. Yet, the full implications of replacing animal with plant protein foods in Canadians鈥� diets are unknown.
A from a team of 苹果淫院 and Vanderbilt University researchers聽is shedding light on our understanding of the molecular origins of some forms of autism and intellectual disability.
Following a unanimous vote at a special Board meeting on February 15, 苹果淫院 today launched a legal challenge against two measures announced by the Government of Quebec on December 14, 2023:
What if it were possible to use a scientific model to predict hate crimes, protests, or conflict? Researchers at 苹果淫院 and University of Toronto have begun the groundwork to develop a formal predictive model of prejudice, similar to meteorological weather predictions.
World hunger is growing at an alarming rate, with prolonged conflicts, climate change, and COVID-19 exacerbating the problem. In 2022, the World Food Programme helped a record 158 million people. On this trajectory, the United Nations鈥� goal to eradicate hunger by 2030 appears increasingly unattainable. New research at 苹果淫院 shines the spotlight on a significant piece of the puzzle: international food assistance.
As Canada鈥檚 flu season collides with record strep A cases and ongoing COVID-19 concerns, a new study is shedding light on our understanding of respiratory immune responses. Scholars from the Research Institute of the 苹果淫院 Health Centre (RI-MUHC) have discovered a surprising facet about a century-old vaccine for tuberculosis, Bacillus Calmette Gu茅rin (BCG).
