First-of-its-kind guideline sets out best practices for delivering injectable opioid agonist treatment
The guideline provides strategies for delivering the treatment with for people with severe opioid use disorder.
Emphasizing social play in kindergarten improves academics, reduces teacher burnout
The study found this approach also enhanced children’s joy in learning.
2019 Faculty of Medicine Award Recipients
Joanna Bates receives Bill and Marilyn Webber Lifetime Achievement Award.
Vancouver Summer Program in Medicine welcomes students from around the world
In 2019, 634 students participated in the four-week program at UBC.
Three members of Faculty of Medicine elected to Royal Society of Canada
David Huntsman, Poul Sorensen, and Thomas J. Ruth, were named Fellows of the Society.
Commonly used antibiotics may lead to heart problems
Scientists have linked two types of heart problems and a commonly-prescribed class of antibiotics.
Carolina Tropini named as a 2019-2021 CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar
She has been named as one of fourteen inspiring early-career researchers named across five CIFAR research programs.
Kids in neighbourhoods with larger households less likely to be killed in residential fires
Researchers examined data from B.C., Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario.
Scientists find possible prenatal origin for Alzheimer disease
Newly discovered gene function may reduce cell death in Alzheimer disease and Down syndrome, according to research led by Weihong Song.
Faculty of Medicine members awarded more than $19 million in CIHR spring funding
Thirty-six of the 382 projects awarded research grants are led by UBC researchers, more than any other institution in this round of funding.