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How to reduce workplace gender segregation

Published: 9 November 2012

Researchers have previously demonstrated that approximately half of the pay gap between men and women (women earn about 20% less) is due to women having a tendency to work in different occupations...

Weather girl dreams

Published: 9 November 2012

HuffPost College asked winners of the Undergraduate Awards - an international academic awards program that identifies top students across the globe through their innovative undergraduate research -...

Higher rates of C. Difficile detection for better tests

Published: 9 November 2012

A sensitive diagnostic test implemented last year at the Royal Victoria Hospital is showing consistently higher rates of detection for a potentially fatal superbug than a test currently used at...

New director at the Neuro

Published: 9 November 2012

Dr. Guy Rouleau, a clinician and neuroscientist who has studied the genetic causes of epilepsy, schizophrenia and other illnesses of the brain, has been appointed director of the Montreal...

Melting in the Andes: Good bye glaciers

Published: 9 November 2012

From the shade of an adobe house overlooking Peru's Santa River, Jimmy Melgarejo squints at the dual peaks of Mount Huascarán looming against a cloudless sky. “The snow keeps getting farther away,”...

Murrahs catch Canadian scholar's fancy

Published: 9 November 2012

Haryana's 'black gold' has caught the fancy of a Canadian scholar. A PhD student of 91˿Ƶ in Montreal, Sophie Llewelyn, is studying the Murrah-human relation in Haryana and the way it...

Corruption probe shakes Montreal, topples Mayor

Published: 9 November 2012

Montrealers have long assumed a fair amount of dirty money sloshes through their city’s politics, but only lately are they learning just how bad things are. This week the mayor had to resign, a...

Cancer trials can lack clear information on biopsies

Published: 9 November 2012

People participating in cancer drug trials aren't always given the most straightforward explanation of possible risks and benefits from invasive procedures that may be involved, according to a new...

Hospitals go beyond "Do not resuscitate"

Published: 9 November 2012

New Brunswick's largest health authority announced this week it will move from a do or do not resuscitate policy to one that gives patients more choices about end-of-life care, as hospital...

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