Canada spends over $400 million on medicine that harms seniors
37 per cent of older Canadians filled one or more prescriptions deemed potentially inappropriate for seniors.
Nadine Caron wins the Dr. Thomas Dignan Indigenous Health Award
The award from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons recognizes physicians devoted to justice for Canada’s Indigenous peoples.
Aboriginal PhD student Dustin King receives Governor General’s Gold Medal
King received the prestigious medal in recognition of his PhD research.
Two faculty members appointed to the Order of BC
Department of Medicine’s Allen Eaves, Professor Emeritus and Eric Yoshida, Professor were among the sixteen civic leaders appointed to the Order of British Columbia, the Province’s highest form of recognition. Dr. Allen Eaves as Head of Hematology in the Department of Medicine, Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) and the BC Cancer Agency for 18 years, launched […]
UBC leads effort to improve treatment of diabetic retinal disease
David Maberley hopes to create diagnostic nodes in several small rural hospitals.
Faculty members receive Doctors of BC Awards
Dr. David Hardwick, Professor Emeritus receives the 2016 Doctors of BC Don Rix Award.
A potential early warning sign of transplant rejection
Kirk Schultz and colleagues found higher levels of an inflammatory protein in people with chronic graft-versus-host disease.
Bringing health knowledge behind the walls
MD students taught health to young offenders at Burnaby Youth Custody Services — and in the process, learned a few things themselves.
Genomics can determine end of tuberculosis outbreak
Researchers from UBC and Imperial College London were able to determine if patients were infected recently or years before.
UBC welcomes Santa Ono as 15th President and Vice-Chancellor
Dr. Ono, the President of the University of Cincinnati, has a PhD in Experimental Medicine and specializes in immunology, eye inflammation and macular degeneration.