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Volume 3 number 1 - June 2011 

• CRCHUM: at the forefront of clinical research
• Physiotherapy for the soul — treating psychosis  (researcher: Amal Abdel-Baki)
• Treating advanced prostate cancer — a world first (researcher: Fred Saad)
• Chronic shoulder pain: Understanding biomechanics to ensure more effective treatments (researcher: Nathalie Bureau)
• Improving lung cancer diagnosis (researcher: Moishe Liberman)
• Stemming HIV transmission in an at-risk population (researcher: Julie Bruneau)
• Innovations in liver cancer treatments (researchers: Réal Lapointe, Franck Vandenbroucke-Menu)
• Detecting and treating prediabetes (researcher: Jean-Louis Chiasson)
• Improved monitoring of women with cervical pre-cancer (researcher: Marie-Hélène Mayrand)

Volume 2 number 3 - November 2010

• Treating depression with omega-3 supplements. (researcher: François Lespérance)
• VIH-TAVIE: a virtual nurse helping patients with HIV-AIDS. (researcher: José Côté)
• Towards a new generation of cardiovascular implants. (researcher: Sophie Lerouge)
• From cells to humans. (reaserchers: Thierry Alquier, Pavel Hamet, Pierrette Gaudreau)
• The urban geography of obesity. (researcher, Yan Kestens)

Volume 2 number 2 - May 2010

• New strategies to combat HIV-AIDS. (researcher: Petronela Ancuta)
• Another step towards a cancer vaccine. (researcher: Réjean Lapointe)
• HIV programs in Africa: the downside of a success story. (researcher: Vinh-Kim Nguyen)
• Towards high-performance frontline services. (researcher: Jean-Frédéric Lévesque)
• Tell me what you eat... (researcher: Parviz Ghadirian)
• BIXIs, active transportation and health, (researcher, Lise Gauvin)

Volume 2 number 1 - March 2010

• A dynamic duo fighting ovarian cancer. (researchers: Anne-Marie Mes-Masson and Diane Provencher)
• From molecules to humans. (researcher: Johanne Martel-Pelletier)
• When the infinitely small leads to big discoveries! (researcher: Johanne Tremblay)
• Piercing the mystery of multiple sclerosis. (researcher: Nathalie Arbour)
• When Mommy has diabetes. (researcher: Shao-Ling Zhang)
• Ovaries and lungs: an alarming correlation. (researcher: Anita Koushik)

Volume 1 number 4 - November 2009

• Treating diabetes: On the trail of beta cells. (researcher: Vincent Poitout)
• Fixing broken hearts. (researchers: Nicolas Noiseux and Samer Mansour)
• “Heroin, it’s my wife and it’s my life” Treating heroin addiction. (researcher: Suzanne Brissette)
• AIDS and the mystery of slow progressors. (researcher: Cécile Tremblay)

Volume 1 number 3 - July 2009

• A3Dmax: Zooming in on AAA in 3D! (researcher: Gilles Soulez)
• A unique biobank in Canada. (researcher: Marie-Josée Hébert)
• Chronic pain: the price of misunderstanding. (researcher: Manon Choinière)
• Optimizing medication to treat cancer. (researcher: André Robidoux)

Volume 1 number 2 - April 2009

• MEDNIK: A New Genetic Syndrome. (researcher: Patrick Cossette)
• Friday’s child – KneeKG. (researcher: Jacques de Guise)
• The enigma of cystic fibrosis related diabetes. (researcher: Yves Bertiaume)
• Prostate cancer: moving towards a molecular signature?(researcher: Fred Saad)

Volume 1 number 1 - December 2008

• Early treatment: the key to curing Hepatitis C. (researcher: Naglaa Shoukry)
• General Practice in Crisis. (researcher: Marie-Dominique Beaulieu)
• Understanding and treating Type 2 Diabetes. (researcher: Marc Prentki)
• What are the cancer risks associated with our environment and lifestyle? (researcher: Jack Siemiatycki)