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Expert: U.S. vaccine guidance overhaul

admin — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:05:51 +0000

Sweeping changes to childhood vaccine guidance in the United States mean that several vaccines, including those for COVID-19, influenza and RSV, are no longer universally recommended.

A ɬ�﷬ expert is available to comment:

Jesse Papenburg, MD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, infectious disease specialist at the Montreal Children’s Hospital and Chair of the Quebec Immunization Committee.

Study offers evidence that racial bias is at play in overrepresentation of Black youth in Canadian child welfare systems

admin — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:28:33 +0000

Researchers who examined Canadian child welfare data found that Black children were not only investigated at a higher rate than their white peers but were also more likely to be taken from their homes, even when the only difference between cases was the child’s race.

Caring Conversations: How to manage behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (in FRENCH)

diane.weidner@mcgill.ca — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 20:12:03 +0000

Caring Conversations is an online forum for care partners of people living with dementia to learn from experts, share concerns and ask questions.

The Info-Neuro cart schedule for January is now available!

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admin — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 16:22:23 +0000

Next week, Prime Minister Mark Carney will travel to China on a trade mission designed to expand markets for Canadian goods and reduce Canada’s reliance on trade with the United States.

These ɬ�﷬ experts are available to discuss Canada-China trade relations:

ɬ�﷬ researcher unveils new model that more accurately measures greenhouse gas emissions from natural gas

admin — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 14:07:07 +0000

ɬ�﷬ engineering researchers have introduced an open-source model that makes it easier for experts and non-experts alike to evaluate greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. natural gas supply chains and yields more accurate results.

Lead author Sarah Jordaan, an associate professor in ɬ�﷬’s Department of Civil Engineering, said the work, published in Cell Reports Sustainability, responds to a long-standing challenge.

New light-triggered microneedle patch could make IVF hormone delivery painless and automated

admin — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 14:54:08 +0000

A ɬ�﷬ research team has developed a painless, automated way to deliver in vitro fertilization (IVF) hormones using a light-activated microneedle patch, an innovation that could ease one of the most stressful parts of fertility treatment and open new possibilities for other diseases that require frequent, time-sensitive injections.

IVF patients must inject themselves with hormones daily at specific times in the weeks leading up to egg retrieval, a process that can be physically and emotionally taxing.

Experts: Iran

admin — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:18:34 +0000

At least 25 people have been killed as protests have swept across Iran in recent days, according to news reports. The demonstrations, which started in the bazaar of Tehran, were sparked by concerns about soaring inflation, but have broadened into expressions of dissatisfaction with Iran’s theocratic regime.

ɬ�﷬ experts are available to comment:

Rex Brynen, Professor, Department of Political Science, is an expert in Middle East politics and security.

Do supervised consumption sites bring increased crime? Study suggests that’s a myth

admin — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:59:41 +0000

Overdose prevention sites and supervised consumption sites in Toronto are not associated with long-term increases in local crime, ɬ�﷬ researchers have found.

Over 10 years, crime reports remained stable or declined in neighbourhoods where sites opened, the researchers said. Their findings land amid debates across Canada about how harm reduction services intersect with public health and safety.

Experts: U.S. captures Venezuela’s president

admin — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 17:11:06 +0000

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife were captured by U.S. special forces last week and are to appear in a U.S. court today on charges related to drug trafficking and narco-terrorism. Meanwhile, U.S. President Donald Trump has coined the term “Donroe Doctrine,” after the 19th-century Monroe Doctrine setting out U.S. dominance of the Western Hemisphere and has threatened the government of Colombia.

These ɬ�﷬ experts are available to comment on this topic:

Mosquitoes’ feeding tubes make ultrafine 3D-printing nozzles

admin — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:39:14 +0000

Researchers in ɬ�﷬’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and at Drexel University have developed an innovative manufacturing technique that makes female mosquito proboscides, or feeding tubes, into high-resolution 3D-printing nozzles. With its unique geometry, structure and mechanics, the proboscis enables printed line widths as fine as 20 microns, or a little smaller than a white blood cell. This is roughly twice as fine as what commercially available print

ɬ�﷬ Cares: A national public education campaign to promote brain health

diane.weidner@mcgill.ca — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 14:15:19 +0000

Join us on January 7, 2026 at noon for our next episode of ɬ�﷬ Cares, a webcast series designed to support informal caregivers.

Experts: Methane pollution

admin — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 20:47:39 +0000

The Canadian federal government has announced new measures to reduce methane pollution.

The greenhouse gas, which is primarily emitted through fossil fuel extraction and by landfills, has 80 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide.

ɬ�﷬ experts are available to comment on this topic:

Preparing Academic Investigators for Clinical Trial Readiness in Neurology

admin — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 15:48:16 +0000

The team from the Platform for Advanced Clinical Therapies (PACT) and Investigator-Initiated Trials (IIT) at The Neuro’s Clinical Research Unit will help academic researchers better understand the regulatory, ethical and legal requirements to tran

New evidence challenges understanding of Parkinson’s disease

admin — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 14:17:23 +0000

A ɬ�﷬-led study is challenging a popular theory about how dopamine drives movement, a discovery that could shift how scientists think about Parkinson’s disease treatments.

Published in Nature Neuroscience, the research found dopamine does not set the speed or force of each movement, as had been thought. Instead, it appears to act as the underlying support system that makes movement possible.