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UBC demonstrates viable alternative treatment for heroin addiction
By bkladko | April 6, 2016
A widely available licensed pain medication is as effective as pharmaceutical-grade prescription heroin for people with chronic heroin addiction.
Paul Dagg recipient of the 2016 Duncan Graham Award
By jwong | April 1, 2016
Paul Dagg, Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry receives the 2016 Duncan Graham Award. This national honorary award is named for Dr. Duncan Graham, chair of the Department of Medicine of the University of Toronto from 1919 to 1947. The Duncan Graham Award has been recognizing outstanding lifelong contribution to medical education since 1969. Dr. Paul […]
B.C. leads Canada’s largest effort to improve kidney disease care
By bkladko | March 31, 2016
Adeera Levin, head of the UBC Division of Nephrology, is directing the five-year project, which aims to reduce the number of people who need dialysis or organ transplants.
A three-decade partnership to advance vision science
By bkladko | March 31, 2016
The Foundation Fighting Blindness has channeled $2.8 million to UBC scientists through year-after-year funding.
Aging diminishes spinal cord regeneration after injury
By bkladko | March 31, 2016
The discovery by ICORD Director Wolfram Tetzlaff has implications for an increasingly active population of older adults.
Physical therapy students gain new training venue in Prince George
By jwong | March 30, 2016
The rehabilitation program, partially staffed by students in the Northern and Rural Cohort, serves heart and lung patients.
David Huntsman receives the Gerald award for Translational Research and Pathology
By jwong | March 29, 2016
David Huntsman, Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine receives the inaugural Gerald award for Translational (cancer) Research and Pathology from Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer Centre. Dr. Huntsman receives this award based on his contributions to gastric cancer and ovarian cancer care and research. The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is based in New York […]
The pediatrician and the peanut
By bkladko | March 21, 2016
The story of Clinical Associate Professor Edmond Chan’s campaign to change an overly-cautious mindset – and reduce peanut allergies.
Two researchers’ take on the next 100 years
By jwong | March 18, 2016
Associate Professor Jehannine Austin shares what will she thinks the next 100 years will bring at UBC.
Fruit flies illuminate male-female disease disparities
By bkladko | March 18, 2016
Differences in insulin secretion might partially explain why more men than women develop cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.