HRH The Duke of York dedicates cornerstone of Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health

The Duke of York (left), UBC President Stephen J. Toope and Djavad Mowafaghian discuss the future brain health centre.
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The double life of pediatrics resident Kristopher Kang

From the corridors of BC Children's Hospital to gunfire and bombs, subsistence poverty and rudimentary governance.
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MD class of 2015 donation gives a lift to low-income patients

The students donated $9,292 to Hope Air, which arranges free flights for patients needing specialized care.
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Strength training + cardio workouts = less time at the doctor

Yoga or Pilates, however, don't help, according to the study of senior women published in PLOS ONE.
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UBC cardiologists help show that blood thinner is safe for patients getting cardiac devices

Andrew Krahn, one of the study's organizers, said the findings will simplify pre-operative drug treatment to prevent strokes.
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2013 Faculty of Medicine Awards

Anthony Phillips, Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, received the Bill and Marilyn Webber Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Learning medicine at the “boundary of the world”

For a doctor in training, a residency rotation on Haida Gwaii is an assigment like no other.
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A new model for medical education — by way of Chilliwack

The conventional method for educating medical students, particularly in the third and fourth years,...

Extending psychiatric care — and training — to Fraser Health

Five years ago, Fraser Health’s psychiatrists were stretched to the limit. “We were unde...

Making hospitals healthier places

Tuberculosis has made an alarming comeback, and among the people facing the highest risk of contra...

An injection of humanity

Patients are supposed to be the centre of attention for students preparing to work in one of the hea...

Attention all employees: Live longer

Imagine your boss coming to your cubicle and, in the course of dumping yet another assignment on you...

Innovation squared

The best innovations often arise from the joining of two distinct, independently developed innovatio...

Boiling things down

The biggest challenge facing life scientists — beyond curing disease, of course — is ex...

Flashes of brilliance

The Verisante Aura detects melanomas. The VELscope highlights oral cancers. The PortaMon looks for b...

Setting a global dragnet

It’s not terribly difficult to spare a woman from the dangers of pre-eclampsia, the sudden ons...

Applying algorithms to anesthesia

Mark Ansermino (on left) is an anesthesiologist, whose job is to protect patients from pain or comp...

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