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Media Releases 2008

October	Common epilepsy drug could prevent and treat Alzheimer’s disease >> more Largest review of its kind associates anti-inflammatory drugs with reduced breast cancer risk >> more
September	Dr. Larry Goldenberg Wins BC Innovation Council Award >> more Getting lost - a newly discovered developmental brain disorder >> more UBC Launches Canada’s First Institute on Neuroethics >> more
July	Researchers Supercharge Brain Cells to Attack Plaques that Cause Alzheimer’s Disease >> more Family Contributes $7.5 Million to Advance Alzheimer's Disease Research >> more First French Grant Helps Researchers Investigate Strokes >> more Researchers win prestigious $1 million NIH grant for Chlamydia vaccine >> more
June	UBC researchers invent helmet that significantly reduces forces to neck during head-first impact >> more Province Funds Prostate Research Expansion at VGH >> more Future Doctors Experience Rural and Community Medicine in B.C. >> more
May	New Link Between Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes >> more Province to Double Training Seats for Physiotherapists >> more Researchers Pioneer Safe Pathway to Slow ALS Using Stem Cells >> more Record Numbers of Doctors Graduate >> more Researchers Discover Missing Link Between TB Bacteria and Humans >> more Faculty of Medicine Research Receives CIHR Funding >> more
April	UBC Cancer Research Chair Announced >> more
March	UBC Fields a Team of Olympic Sports Doctors >> more
February	Health Research Excellence Awarded at UBC and VCHRI >> more Faculty of Medicine Involved in Four out of 11 Funding Awards for New Centres of Excellence >> more Brain Damage Occurs Within Minutes from the Onset of a Stroke >> more Sleep Apnea Doubles Car Crash Risk >> more Conquering AIDS — if We Have a HAART >> more UBC Professor Awarded Canada’s Top Teaching Prize >> more
January	Popular Osteoporosis drugs triple risk of bone necrosis >> more Saying Goodbye to HIV in Canada >> more The False Hope of the Next Big Thing >> more The New Field of Neuroethics >> more Committing to the World’s Children >> more

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