Pierre Godin, René Lévesque l’homme brisé, Montréal, Boréal, 2005, 604 p.

Professeur René HEN

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) display a delayed onset of antidepressant action of several weeks. Past work demonstrated evidence that the 5-HT4 receptor may be a direct target for treating depression and a new hope for fast acting antidepressant treatment. However, the 5-HT4 hypothesis still needs to be validated in models of anxiety/depression. We decided to investigate wheth...

Sunlight exposure during leisure activities and risk of prostate cancer in Montréal, Canada, 2005–2009

BACKGROUND Prostate cancer (PCa) is the leading cause of cancer in men in many developed countries, but no modifiable risk factors have been identified. A handful of analytical studies have suggested a possible etiological role for sunlight exposure. We report here on the association between leisure-time sunlight exposure during adulthood and PCa risk in the context of a population-based case-c...

René Favaloro of Our Society

of Our Society A Revival of Paul Dudley White : An Overview of Present Medical Practice and ISSN: 1524-4539 Copyright © 1999 American Heart Association. All rights reserved. Print ISSN: 0009-7322. Online Circulation is published by the American Heart Association. 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 72514 doi: 10.1161/01.CIR.99.12.1525 1999, 99:1525-1537 Circulation http://circ.ahajournals.org/co...

René Jules Dubos.

René Dubos: unearthing antibiotics

In 1939, René Dubos discovered gramicidin-the first clinically tested antibiotic agent. This discovery helped revive the stalled interest in penicillin and launched the era of antibiotics.