Federal health minister tours UBC’s brain health centre
Brian MacVicar, Co-Director of the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, was one of three researchers to meet with Canada’s Minister of Health, Rona Ambrose.
UBC lauds pioneers in heart failure and brain imaging
Cardiologist Paul Armstrong and neuroscientist Alan Evans have won the Margolese National Prizes in Heart and Brain Disorders from the Faculty of Medicine.
B.C. and U.S. support expansion of UBC’s addiction research and training
The $5.5 million will help train more addiction specialists and support clinical trials.
Coastal community partnerships enrich residency training for new doctors
Jessica Palmer is part of the first cohort of eight Coastal family practice residents.
Opening doors for new physicians in B.C.’s Interior
Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops is one of two new training sites for medical residents in B.C.’s Interior.
A “broken barrier” theory of ALS
Associate Professor Christopher Loewen has discovered a biochemical method cells use to internally compartmentalize themselves.
A taste of Canadian medical education
The inaugural Vancouver Summer Program in Medicine has brought 85 Chinese students to UBC for courses in pharmacology and clinical research.
Queensland signs on to British Columbia’s HIV strategy
The Australian state became the latest jurisdiction to adopt the policy of widespread HIV testing and the immediate offer of anti-retroviral drugs.
Early HIV infection often eludes clinical diagnosis
In an article published in JAMA, lead author Evan Wood and collaborators found that physicians struggle to recognize early HIV infection through clinical exams alone.