Highlights from Med//E-News: The McGILL FACULTY OF MEDICINE ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER

• Saying ‘thank you’ by keeping our frontline hospital workers well fed April 7, 2020
  Unable to continue their clinical rotations in hospitals because of COVID-19, a group of third-year McGill medical students are doing their part to support the heroes working on the frontlines of the pandemic by providing them with fresh meals. The MerciMeals MTL initiative is raising money to buy food from local restaurants to feed hospital […]
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• Message from VP-Dean Eidelman – Faculty Council Takeaways and FAQs April 7, 2020
  As a follow-up to the Faculty Council & Town Hall meeting held on March 31, please find a summary of the speakers’ updates, together with questions and answers from the session. Thank you, again, for having joined the meeting and for all you are doing in this COVID-19 pandemic to continue teaching and learning, to […]
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• Reducing confusion about the coronavirus (COVID-19) April 6, 2020
  When Premier Legault and Quebec’s director of public health exhorted young people last month to avoid “exchanges of biological liquids,” the newspaper Le Devoir sought clarification from Dr. Don Vinh, a scientist at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre and medical microbiologist at the MUHC. In the same week, Dr. Vinh contributed […]
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• The MGH ICU adopts new strategies in the face of COVID-19 April 6, 2020
  Many would say that the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Montreal General Hospital has seen it all. Broken bones caused by bad car accidents or steep falls off buildings, serious knife injuries and even gun wounds. In the face of COVID-19, this fast-acting team has shown just how proactive they are by adopting new […]
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• MIMM Bites Newsletter – April 2020 April 6, 2020
  We are pleased to announce that the April issue is now available online. It provides news and announcements of interest to the faculty and support staff members, as well as to students and alumni members. It also presents information on department updates, upcoming events and announcements. Read more ►  
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• Emergency fund supports MI4 research on COVID-19 April 6, 2020
  Under ordinary circumstances, scientists don’t like to be rushed when they put together proposals for research projects. And granting agencies don’t want to be rushed when they assess those proposals for funding. But these aren’t ordinary times. The McGill Interdisciplinary Initiative in Infection and Immunity recently announced the first 16 recipients of funding from its MI4 Emergency […]
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• Early-childhood environments can worsen or improve attention deficit symptoms April 6, 2020
  Led by Dr Patricia P Silveira, a new study and bioinformatically derived diagnostic tool focused on brain serotonin function show that increased exposure to early childhood adversity associates with an increase in Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD/ ADD) in children as young as age 4 and 5. On the positive side, supportive environments also seemed to […]
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