UBC residents take to the stage at ninth annual Resident Talent Night
From acrobatics and theatre to poetry and song, it was one show-stopping performance after another at this year’s Resident Talent Night.
UBC technology for determining concussions gets tryout
Combining brain waves with a customized algrorithm, the technology is being piloted with young soccer players in Richmond.
From Tunisian villages, UBC scientists find new target for stopping Parkinson’s
Matthew Farrer found that a gene called Dynamin-3 affects when symptoms arise.
How OT can help people with arthritis get back to doing what they love most
September is Arthritis Awareness Month. UBC researcher Catherine Backman talks about her interest in arthritis and how occupational therapy can help people living with the condition get back to doing what they love.
UBC researchers discover how cancer’s ‘invisibility cloak’ works
Researchers discovered that as certain cancers evolve, they may lose the ability to create a protein that acts as a flag for the body’s immune system.
Genetics-based prescribing moves one step closer to reality
TreatGx, conceived by Martin Dawes, Head of the Department of Family Practice, has been shown to be feasible and is now being marketed to consumers.
New UBC education space opens at Royal Inland Hospital
UBC medical students and residents have an expansive new learning space in the Clinical Services Building at Royal Inland Hospital.
Island Medical Program graduate Dr. Roxanne Mitchell wins prestigious award in psychiatry
Dr. Roxanne Mitchell, an IMP graduate from the Class of 2016, has been awarded the “Kristin Sivertz Memorial Prize in Medicine in Psychiatry.”
$51.5M in federal-provincial funding to benefit Faculty of Medicine
Among the projects supported by the grants will be the Chan Gunn Pavilion, future home for UBC research into physical activity and exercise medicine.
COPD could overwhelm healthcare systems within two decades
Mohsen Sadatsafavi’s findings contradict the widespread assumption that the decline in smoking is making COPD a disease of the past.