/channels/taxonomy/term/6680/all en /channels/channels/news/women-experiencing-intimate-partner-violence-three-times-more-likely-contract-hiv-344566 <p><!-- x-tinymce/html --></p> <p>Women who experience recent intimate partner violence (IPV) are three times more likely to contract HIV, according to a new study led by 苹果淫院 researchers. In regions like Sub-Saharan Africa, women face an intersecting epidemic of intimate partner violence and HIV.</p> <p>鈥淲orldwide, more than one in four women experience intimate partner violence in their lifetime," says 苹果淫院 Professor聽<a href="//www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/mathieu-maheu-giroux">Mathieu Maheu-Giroux</a>, a Canada Research Chair in Population Health Modeling.</p> Thu, 05 Jan 2023 14:13:22 +0000 webfull 185814 at /channels /channels/news/oral-cancer-causing-hpv-transmission-240037 <p>Oral human papillomavirus (HPV) infections were more common among men who had female partners with oral and/or genital HPV infection, suggesting that the transmission of HPV occurs via oral-oral and oral-genital routes, according to a 苹果淫院 study published in <i>Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention</i>, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. Wed, 12 Nov 2014 15:14:31 +0000 webfull 106431 at /channels /channels/news/fight-tumors-and-infections-targeted-drugs-257962 <p><i>By Cynthia Lee</i></p> <p>Some drug regimens, such as those designed to eliminate tumors, are notorious for nasty side effects. Unwanted symptoms are often the result of medicine going where it鈥檚 not needed and harming healthy cells. To minimize this risk, researchers in Quebec have developed nanoparticles that only release a drug when exposed to near-infrared light, which doctors could beam onto a specific site. Their report appears in the <em>Journal of the American Chemical Society</em>.</p> Wed, 20 Jan 2016 15:35:58 +0000 webfull 115366 at /channels