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Hatching Health: interdisciplinary student-led event aims to unscramble healthcare challenges
February 23, 2016Inspired by an event they attended at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, two MD students aim to bring their peers together to "hack" solutions for some of healthcare's greatest challenges. Read More >

Alumna nurtures midwifery research – by midwives and nurses
February 22, 2016A donation will create a student award for midwives and nurses pursuing graduate studies in maternity care at UBC. Read More >

Take this advice from a cardiovascular health expert to heart
February 18, 2016What can women do to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease? Professor Karin Humphries weighs in. Read More >

A quest to restore cognition
February 18, 2016Can a mental training regimen help people coping with the effects of traumatic brain injury? Read More >

UBC helping with national study of opioid addiction treatment
February 16, 2016Evan Wood will lead the B.C. arm of the study, which will compare methadone and buprenorphine/naloxone. Read More >

An immune cell that performs double duty
February 15, 2016Megan Levings, in the Department of Surgery, found that regulatory T-cells not only signal other immune cells to attack but also keep them in check. Read More >

Poor air quality kills 5.5 million worldwide annually
February 12, 2016More than half of the deaths occur in two of the world’s fastest growing economies -- China and India. Read More >

Seeking an end to newborns’ “diagnostic odysseys”
February 11, 2016Matthew Farrer's lab will sequence a portion of critically ill infants' genomes within a week. Read More >

A 25-year partnership in professionalizing occupational hygiene
February 10, 2016The Faculty of Medicine has Western Canada’s only graduate-level training program devoted to workplace hazards and health impacts. Read More >

Faculty of Medicine garners 11 Canada Research Chairs
February 9, 2016Among the new appointees, Janice Eng was named a Canada Research Chair in Neurological Rehabilitation. Read More >