/newsroom/taxonomy/term/684/all en /newsroom/channels/news/experts-protecting-children-online-harms-361873 <p><b>Experts: Protecting children from online harms</b></p> <p>The Canadian government announced Wednesday it is splitting the online harms bill in two to speed up passage of measures to protect children from online predators and other perils.</p> <p>These experts from 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ are available to share their insights:</p> Thu, 05 Dec 2024 15:58:41 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 314877 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/time-nature-benefits-children-mental-health-difficulties-study-361155 <p>A team of researchers from 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ and Université de Montréal’s Observatoire pour l’éducation et la santé des enfants (OPES, or observatory on children’s health and eduation), led by Sylvana Côté, spending two hours a week of class time in a natural environment can reduce emotional distress among 10- to 12-year-olds who had the most significant mental health problems before the program began.</p> Wed, 13 Nov 2024 20:36:49 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 314821 at /newsroom /newsroom/sara-grimes Fri, 13 Sep 2024 19:43:45 +0000 keila.depape@mcgill.ca 314628 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/new-understanding-neurobiology-impulsivity-342047 <p>While not all impulsive behaviour speaks of mental illness, a wide range of mental health disorders which often emerge in adolescence, including depression and substance abuse, have been linked to impulsivity. So, finding a way to identify and treat those who may be particularly vulnerable to impulsivity early in life is especially important.</p> Mon, 19 Sep 2022 21:30:55 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 288366 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/concussion-symptoms-children-may-have-multiple-underlying-causes-339608 <p>Different types of brain damage caused by a concussion may lead to similar symptoms in children, according to research led by 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ. A new way of studying concussions could help develop future treatments.</p> <p>While most children fully recover after a concussion, some will have lasting symptoms. The findings published in <i><a href="https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.70450">eLife</a></i> help explain the complex relationships that exist between symptoms and the damage caused by the injury.</p> Tue, 17 May 2022 17:46:34 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 288147 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/expert-severe-hepatitis-unknown-origin-children-being-investigated-canada-339404 <p>Public health officials say they're investigating cases of severe liver disease "of unknown origin" among children in Canada as global scientists race to understand a mysterious hepatitis outbreak that has affected nearly 200 youths around the world. The latest available data from the World Health Organization shows at least 169 cases of acute hepatitis of unknown origin have been reported in close to a dozen countries, with the bulk of the reports — 114 — from the U.K. (<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/liver-disease-mystery-1.6431872" target="_blank">CBC News</a>)</p> Mon, 02 May 2022 20:07:40 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 288114 at /newsroom /newsroom/cindy-blackstock Fri, 06 Aug 2021 18:21:04 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 271899 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/mothers-not-fathers-multiple-children-report-more-fragmented-sleep-327613 <p>Mothers with multiple children report more fragmented sleep than mothers of a single child, but the number of children in a family doesn't seem to affect the quality of sleep for fathers, according to a <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jsr.13238">study</a> from 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ.</p> Tue, 12 Jan 2021 19:48:19 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 256016 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/child-marriage-legal-and-persists-across-canada-327554 <p>Canada is at the forefront of global efforts to end child marriage abroad. Yet this practice remains legal and persists across the country. In Canada, more than 3,600 marriage certificates were issued to children, usually girls, under the age of 18 between 2000 and 2018, according to a <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/padr.12369">new study</a> from researchers at 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ. In recent years, an increasing number of child marriages have been common-law unions.</p> Fri, 08 Jan 2021 18:58:29 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 255851 at /newsroom /newsroom/robert-platt Wed, 16 Dec 2020 21:07:52 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 253486 at /newsroom /newsroom/jay-kaufman Wed, 16 Dec 2020 20:49:18 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 253478 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/experts-halloween-spike-nut-allergies-325740 <p>A new study from researchers at 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ is looking into the link between holidays and nut allergies in children. The study found that bouts of anaphylaxis brought on by peanut allergies increased by 85 per cent on Halloween and 60 per cent on Easter, compared to the rest of the year. (<a href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/health/study-reveals-the-most-harmful-holidays-for-children-with-nut-allergies-1.5113989">CTV News</a>)</p> <p>Here are some experts from 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ that can provide comment on this issue:</p> Wed, 28 Oct 2020 18:53:17 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 245398 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/love-matters-how-parents-love-shapes-childrens-lives-320409 <p>Parents often put their own relationship on the back burner to concentrate on their children, but a new study shows that when spouses love each other, children stay in school longer and marry later in life.</p> Thu, 13 Feb 2020 19:16:47 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 198465 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/identification-new-gene-causing-scoliosis-and-bone-malformations-282394 <p>A unique collaboration among Shriners Hospital for Children – Canada, CHU Sainte-Justine and 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ has enabled researchers to identify genetic mutations involved in a rare disease that causes scoliosis and bone malformations.</p> <p>The findings, published in <em>The American Journal of Human Genetics,</em> are likely to help doctors recognize the genetic disease, and could someday lead to therapies for the condition.</p> Thu, 02 Nov 2017 16:53:22 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 32634 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/when-children-see-war-better-peace-267588 <p>For most people, the end of a war offers relief, hope, and an end to violence. This may not be the case for children born of wartime rape, however, who often endure continued brutality in the post-war period.</p> <p>That finding emerges from a new study of children born to mothers who were abducted, held captive, and sexually violated by members of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a rebel group led by Joseph Kony during the civil war in northern Uganda from 1986 to 2007.</p> Tue, 11 Apr 2017 15:02:16 +0000 justin.dupuis@mcgill.ca 26862 at /newsroom