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(McGill University Health Centre) The latest study by Dr. Sandra Dialquestions the assumption held by a vast majority of medical professionals that Clostridium difficile (C.difficile) infections are essentially always preceded by antibiotic use.

This finding could have a major impact on how patients with diarrhea are evaluated upon their admission to the hospital.

This study will appear in the Oct. 6 issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

(McGill University Health Centre) Graduate student Tam Dang-Tan, under the supervision of Dr. Eduardo Franco of the research institute of the McGill University Health Center, developed a pioneering study to categorize and analyze the timeframes involved in getting pediatric oncology patients to initial therapy.

This study was carried out in partnership with Health Canada and was recently published in Pediatric Blood and Cancer.

(McGill University Health Centre) The latest study by Dr. Nicolas Christou of the McGill University Health Center and McGill University shows that bariatric surgery also decreases the risk of developing cancer by up to 80 percent.

Dr. Christou presented his preliminary results yesterday at the 25th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery.

(McGill University Health Centre) New studies from a team of researchers from the Research Institute of the MUHC and McGill University show that the environment surrounding breast cancer cells plays a crucial role in determining whether tumor cells grow and migrate or whether they fade away.

Their study is the first to identify the genes behind this environmental control and correlate them with patient outcome.

Their findings are published in this week's issue of Nature Medicine.