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Telephone therapy for depression improves work productivity
By bkladko | November 4, 2013
The study, led by Psychiatry Professor Raymond Lam, found that “talk therapy” combined with medication resulted in better job performance than medication alone.
Province resumes support for UBC’s Therapeutics Initiative
By bkladko | October 22, 2013
The decision ends more than a year of uncertainty for the unit, spearheaded by some of the Faculty’s leading researchers to evaluate new drugs.
Animating a love of science
By bkladko | October 16, 2013
A PhD candidate in Experimental Medicine has co-produced a series of short videos about stem cells, funded by the Stem Cell Network.
Daily inspiration for the Southern Medical Program
By bkladko | October 16, 2013
The Tree of Life, a massive wooden relief, now graces the Reichwald Health Sciences Centre on UBC’s Okanagan campus.
Altitude adjustment
By bkladko | October 15, 2013
Do training tents have the same effect as actually going to high elevations? Michael Koehle, an Associate Professor in the Division of Sports Medicine, investigated.
“Gold standard” imaging study casts doubt on MS theory
By bkladko | October 8, 2013
Led by Associate Professor of Neurology Anthony Traboulsee, the study found that narrowed veins are just as prevalent in people without MS.
Max Cynader to be inducted into Canadian Medical Hall of Fame
By bkladko | September 24, 2013
A neuroscientist and Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Dr. Cynader leads the Brain Research Centre and the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health.
Thousands of shades of grey
By bkladko | September 20, 2013
The UBC MRI Research Centre has trained its magnets on Olympic swimmers, compulsive gamblers, and most of all, people with brain disorders.
Researchers sound warning over heart attack symptoms
By bkladko | September 18, 2013
Associate Professor of Medicine Nadia Khan and collaborators found that the severity of women’s heart attacks could be obscured by the absence of chest pain.
Fine-tuning HIV treatment
By bkladko | September 18, 2013
Associate Professor of Medicine Richard Harrigan will develop a new, DNA-based test to minimize side-effects of antiretroviral therapy — thus increasing the odds that patients stick with it.