Picking up a prescription has never been easier than it is today. Within a few minutes of leaving the doctor’s office, a patient can have their antibiotic, oral contraceptive, or asthma inhaler from the local pharmacy and walk away with the medication they need. But how much does that patient really know about the drug they’re about to take? And how much does the physician really know about...
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Published in Future Health, a quarterly publication of Canadians for Health Research in Winter 2011
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About two years ago, Dr. Philippe Gros, a McGill University professor in the Department of Biochemistry and a Principal Investigator in the McGill Life Sciences Complex, described a mouse mutant that was immunodeficient and hypersensitive to the Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine and to tuberculosis (TB). In this model, Gros’s team had found that the immunodeficiency was caused by...
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In an age when personalized medicine is within reach, a one-size-fits-all approach just won’t cut it. A group of North American researchers have identified two modifier genes in the genomes of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) that may be responsible for variation in disease severity. This is the first study to show evidence that modifier genes affect the severity of cystic fibrosis.
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Published in Future Health, a quarterly publication of Canadians for Health Research in Fall 2011