Lost and found in medical service
A young physician reflects on how she found a renewed commitment to medicine by helping patients abroad.
A faster way to measure a patient’s breathing rate
The mobile phone app developed by UBC researchers can calculate the rate in 10 seconds — compared to one minute using the standard “stopwatch” method.
“If you keep hating, it eats away at you”
Senior Instructor Hanh Huynh introduces UBC medical students to Vietnam, the country he fled 34 years ago.
Faculty members to receive 2014 Order of British Columbia
James Hogg, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, is one of four faculty members appointed to the Order of BC.
Therapeutics Initiative highlights potential harms from statins
As use of the cholesterol-lowering drugs surges, the UBC group warns that side effects may outweigh the potential benefit for many people.
Discoverer of immune cell receptor wins UBC cancer prize
Tak Wah Mak, of the University of Toronto, will receive the inaugural Dr. Chew Wei Memorial Prize in Cancer Research.
Pop-ups and close-ups
To prevent cognitive overload, Claudia Krebs dissected neuroanatomy — and radically reassembled it.
A centesimal celebration
Two of the Faculty of Medicine’s newest programs, Midwifery and Genetic Counselling, each awarded their 100th diplomas this year.
A cruel disease, two maverick approaches
Two UBC scientists have climbed out onto separate limbs in their efforts to find a treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Oscar Casiro’s Victoria lap
The Faculty’s first Regional Associate Dean, Vancouver Island, steps down after 10 years of nurturing medical education from Victoria to Port McNeill.