By bkladko | September 26, 2018
The team will address ethical challenges of neurosurgical innovations for treating children with drug-resistant epilepsy.
By bkladko | September 20, 2018
Daily use of cannabis was associated with a 21 per cent higher chance of remaining in opioid agonist treatment programs.
By bkladko | September 18, 2018
Moving avatars toward pictures of physical activity required volunteers’ brains to work harder.
By bkladko | September 14, 2018
Six faculty members have been announced as Fellows of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, representing one of the highest honours for members of the Canadian health sciences community.
By Sarah Stenabaugh | September 13, 2018
Lakshmi N. Yatham, Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Director of the UBC Institute of Mental Health, has been recognized for his outstanding achievements in mood disorders research with the 2018 Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Colvin Prize for Bipolar Mood Disorder Research.
By Sarah Stenabaugh | September 12, 2018
Seven doctoral students at the Faculty of Medicine have received a Vanier Canada Graduate Fellowship, which recognizes young researchers who demonstrate leadership skills and a high standard of scholarly achievement in graduate studies in the health sciences, the natural sciences and/or engineering, and the social sciences and humanities.
By bkladko | September 12, 2018
Some overdose prevention sites are perceived as “masculine” spaces.
By bkladko | September 11, 2018
Researchers compared health outcomes of a group of vaccinated Canadian women and girls with HIV with a previously-studied cohort of vaccinated women and girls without HIV.
By bkladko | September 11, 2018
Two members of the UBC Faculty of Medicine have been named Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada – the highest honour a scholar can achieve in the arts, humanities and sciences in Canada — and two members have been elected to its College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.
By Sarah Stenabaugh | September 10, 2018
The Faculty of Medicine’s Continuing Professional Development’s (CPD) eCoach tool has been recognized with the College of Family of Physicians of Canada’s CPD Program Award.