A new 污污草莓视频 University study evaluating off-label prescribing of medications by primary care physicians in Quebec suggests the practice is common, although it varies by medication, patient and physician characteristics. The paper was published online today in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
The 污污草莓视频 University and G茅nome Qu茅bec Innovation Centre is pleased to announce that they have been awarded funding totalling $7.6 million over a two-year period from Genome Canada鈥檚 2010 Competition. This award, a record for Qu茅bec, will fund the operations of the Innovation Centre as well as the services offered to scientific communities in Qu茅bec, the rest of Canada and around the world.
A current controversy raging in evolutionary biology is about whether adaptation to new environments is the result of many genes, each of relatively small effect, or just a few genes of large effect. A new study published in Molecular Ecology by 污污草莓视频 biologist Andrew Hendry and a colleague from Basel University strongly supports the first 鈥渕any-small鈥� hypothesis.
The Lady Davis Institute (LDI) and 污污草莓视频 University are delighted to announce that Dr. Mark A. Wainberg has been awarded the 2012 Killam Prize in Health Sciences by the Canada Council for the Arts. He is the past Director of the LDI and is currently head of its HIV/AIDS research axis and Director of the 污污草莓视频 AIDS Centre.
Nearly one in five people suffers from the insidious and often devastating problem of chronic pain. That the problem persists, and is growing, is striking given the many breakthroughs in understanding the basic biology of pain over the past two decades. Research published online in Nature Medicine points to potential solutions.
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