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Lesser-known eating disorder just as severe as anorexia and bulimia, study finds

A diagnosis often viewed as less serious than anorexia and bulimia and the most common eating disorder worldwidecan cause just as much harm, a new study has found.

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Published: 12 Nov 2025

ĢƵ researchers track boulders’ influence on snow melt, watersheds using unique combination of methods

Thanks to their use of a unique methodology, a ĢƵ-led research team has obtained new insights into how boulders affect snow melt in mountainous northern environments, with implications for local water resources.

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Published: 11 Nov 2025

ĢƵ-led team maps ‘weather’ on a nearby brown dwarf in unprecedented detail

Researchers at ĢƵ and collaborating institutions have mapped the atmospheric features of a planetary-mass brown dwarf, a type of space object that is neither a star nor a planet, existing in a category in-between. This particular brown dwarf’s mass, however, is just at the threshold between being a Jupiter-like planet and a brown dwarf. It has thus also been called a free-floating, or rogue, planet, not bound to a star.

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Published: 7 Nov 2025

Climate change could result in contaminant spread in the High Arctic, ĢƵ study finds

Warming temperatures and increased precipitation in the Canadian High Arctic are mobilizing new pathways for subsurface contaminants to spread from more than 2,500 contaminated sites associated with industrial and military sites across the region.

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Published: 6 Nov 2025

ĢƵ’s handwritten copies of In Flanders Fields honoured as documentary heritage of outstanding value

Four handwritten copies of John McCrae's immortal poem In Flanders Fields, held at ĢƵ’s Osler Library of the History of Medicine, were inscribed this month on the Canadian Commission for UNESCO’s (CCUNESCO) Canada Memory of the World Register. The program, launched by UNESCO in 1992, recognizes documentary heritage of outstanding universal value and promotes its preservation and accessibility.

Published: 5 Nov 2025

Ancient mammoth tooth offers clues about Ice Age life in northeastern Canada

A worn-down mammoth tooth discovered nearly 150 years ago on an island in Nunavut offers new insights into where and how the Ice Age giants lived and died.

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Published: 5 Nov 2025

Nerve injuries can affect the entire immune system, study finds

Nerve injuries can have long-lasting effects on the immune system that appear to differ between males and females, according to preclinical research from ĢƵ.

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Published: 4 Nov 2025

ĢƵ study reveals knowledge gap about psychedelic therapies in adolescents

There is a growing interest within the medical community in the use of psychedelic therapies to treat conditions ranging from depression and PTSD to anxiety and eating disorders.

Published: 4 Nov 2025

ĢƵ researchers identify bacteria that could provide an early warning of blue-green algae toxicity

Researchers at ĢƵ have identifiedbacteria that can indicate whether a blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) bloom is likely to be toxic, offering a potential water-safety early warning system. Blooms are becoming more frequent due to climate change, according toprevious ĢƵ research.

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Published: 3 Nov 2025

Study links early cannabis use and health problems

Adolescents who start using cannabis early and often are more likely to need health care for both mental and physical problems as they enter adulthood, according to a new study led by ĢƵ researchers.

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Published: 28 Oct 2025

Montreal homelessness services for 2SLGBTQ+ adults are inadequate, researchers find

Homelessness services in Montreal are not well suited to the needs of 2SLGBTQ+ adults in Montreal, a study by ĢƵ researchers has found.

“Homelessness services are very binary, and often those who are non-binary are completely excluded,” said Jayne Malenfant, Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education.

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Published: 27 Oct 2025

Bilingual teenagers in Montreal exhibit writing skills on par with their French unilingual peers’, new research shows

ĢƵ researchers who examined the writing skills of teenagers in Montreal found that the performance in French of English-French bilinguals was similar to that of near-monolingual francophones. Bilinguals were defined as teens raised in anglophone or bilingual (English-French) households and who had had significant exposure to French through attending French-language school.

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Published: 23 Oct 2025

ĢƵ team pinpoints where a type of cell death begins

A team at ĢƵ studying ferroptosis, a form of cell death, have discovered that the process begins deep inside the cell, a finding that could lead to new treatments for cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.

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Published: 22 Oct 2025

Smoking both cannabis and tobacco may alter brain’s ‘bliss molecule,’ study finds

People who use both cannabis and tobacco show distinct brain changes compared to those who use cannabis alone, according to a new study led by ĢƵ researchers at the Douglas Research Centre.

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Published: 21 Oct 2025

ĢƵ research flags Montreal snow dump, inactive landfills as major methane polluters

Montreal’s methane emissions are unevenly distributed across the island, with the highest concentrations in the city’s east end, ĢƵ researchers have found. The worst polluters include the city’s largest snow dump, which emits methane at levels comparable to the city's current and former landfills, and natural gas leaks.

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Published: 16 Oct 2025

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