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UBC launches Resident Wellness Office
By Patricia Angel | March 4, 2014
Lauren Phelan, Program Assistant, Roger Wong, Associate Dean, and Rebecca Turnbull, Program Counsellor, celebrate the opening of the innovative service.
Making connections: Canada’s largest integrated brain centre opens
By bkladko | February 27, 2014
The Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health unites research and clinical expertise in neuroscience, psychiatry and neurology.
A new technique to target and disable pathological proteins
By bkladko | February 21, 2014
The method, co-discovered by Professor of Neurology Yu Tian Wang, can be applied to Alzheimer’s disease, Huntington’s disease, stroke and even cancers.
UBC helps expand diabetes clinical trial network
By bkladko | February 14, 2014
Tim Kieffer (left) will test a teabag-like device that encapsulates stem cell-derived beta cells; Rusung Tan (right) will launch a clinical trial of a drug now used for psoriasis.
South African healthcare workers face greater risk for TB and HIV
By bkladko | February 14, 2014
Annalee Yassi (left) and Elizabeth Bryce (right) are helping South Africa implement occupational health guidelines for patient care staff.
A healthy scoop of support
By Patricia Angel | February 13, 2014
Megan Kilvert started the Ice Cream Rounds at BC Children’s Hospital to help deal with the pressures of medical residency.
A new pathway for stopping an incurable disease
By bkladko | February 13, 2014
Paul Sorensen discovered a protein that prevents some childhood cancers. Now he has found that the same protein, HACE1, might also protect neurons against Huntington disease.
Genetic discovery helps newborns beat a life-threatening condition
By bkladko | February 13, 2014
Clara van Karnebeek discovered a previously unknown cause of excess ammonia in the blood, enabling the condition to be diagnosed — and treated.
A more authentic cancer model
By bkladko | January 30, 2014
Yuzhuo Wang and Colin Collins have grown the world’s first early-stage human prostate cancer in mice.
U.S. home births found to have low intervention and mortality rates
By bkladko | January 30, 2014
The study, overseen by UBC’s Saraswathi Vedam, is the largest-ever survey of home births in the U.S.