/newsroom/taxonomy/term/85/all en /newsroom/mark-brandon Mon, 20 Mar 2023 20:53:16 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 297093 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/muscle-discovery-aging-and-memory-plus-other-stories-341562 <p><img alt="muscle" src="/newsroom/files/newsroom/channels/image/muscle-actin-myosins-web.jpg" style="width:100%" /></p> <h2>Muscle discovery may lead to better drugs</h2> <p>The smallest constituents of muscles, myosin and actin, may be targeted to contribute to more effective treatment methods against heart and muscle diseases, say a group of international researchers at Æ»¹ûÒùÔº and Linnaeus University.</p> Thu, 08 Sep 2022 14:52:06 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 288355 at /newsroom /newsroom/howard-bergman Tue, 21 Jun 2022 18:38:35 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 288213 at /newsroom /newsroom/stephanie-chevalier Wed, 09 Dec 2020 17:35:05 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 252619 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/national-study-collect-data-aging-adults-experiences-during-covid-19-pandemic-321774 <p>How does a pandemic affect the physical and psychological health of adults as they age? Does COVID-19 have an impact on the delivery of regular health-care services? Does a COVID-19 infection lead to long-term health problems affecting the lungs or brain?</p> Wed, 22 Apr 2020 13:53:18 +0000 amelia.souffrant@mail.mcgill.ca 209009 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/canadians-are-aging-well-287446 <p>It's not every day that one receives a call from a researcher asking if they want to participate in a study on aging for the next 20 years of their lives. That's what 50,000 Canadians aged 45 to 85 have agreed to do in taking part of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA), one of the largest and most comprehensive studies on the health and well-being of the country’s aging population.</p> Thu, 31 May 2018 19:25:06 +0000 justin.dupuis@mcgill.ca 42340 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/national-study-shed-light-aging-285235 <div> </div> <div><em>by Brenda Branswell</em></div> <div> </div> <div>Source: <a href="http://mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/s/1762/news/interior.aspx?sid=1762&gid=2&pgid=1885">Æ»¹ûÒùÔº News Magazine</a></div> <div> </div> <div>Imagine getting a phone call asking if you’d like to take part in a study … for the next 20 years.</div> <div> </div> <div>It’s a pitch that makes telemarketing look like child’s play.</div> <div> </div> Tue, 20 Feb 2018 20:18:00 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 32990 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/no-detectable-limit-how-long-people-can-live-268769 <p>Emma Morano passed away last April. At 117 years old, the Italian woman was the oldest known living human being.</p> <p>Super- centenarians, such as Morano and Jeanne Calment of France, who famously lived to be 122 years old, continue to fascinate scientists and have led them to wonder just how long humans can live. A study published in <em>Nature</em> last October concluded that the upper limit of human age is peaking at around 115 years.</p> Wed, 28 Jun 2017 15:04:07 +0000 justin.dupuis@mcgill.ca 32021 at /newsroom /newsroom/bernard-robaire Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 22844 at /newsroom /newsroom/judes-poirier Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 22898 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/41-million-unlock-mysteries-aging-243346 Fri, 06 Mar 2015 21:31:33 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 22218 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/popular-antioxidant-likely-ineffective-study-finds-243263 Fri, 06 Mar 2015 14:56:02 +0000 christopher.chipello@mcgill.ca 22214 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/walking-better-brain-239540 <p> Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:21:23 +0000 kaviyanka.selvasandran@mail.mcgill.ca 21253 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/melatonin-makes-old-bones-stronger-236832 <p> Mon, 26 May 2014 14:22:56 +0000 raphael.larocque-cyr@mcgill.ca 20789 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/what-doesn%E2%80%99t-kill-you-may-make-you-live-longer-236587 Thu, 08 May 2014 15:13:09 +0000 cynthia.lee@mcgill.ca 20712 at /newsroom