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Canada spends over $400 million on medicine that harms seniors
June 22, 201637 per cent of older Canadians filled one or more prescriptions deemed potentially inappropriate for seniors. Read More >

Nadine Caron wins the Dr. Thomas Dignan Indigenous Health Award
June 21, 2016The award from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons recognizes physicians devoted to justice for Canada's Indigenous peoples. Read More >

Aboriginal PhD student Dustin King receives Governor General’s Gold Medal
June 21, 2016King received the prestigious medal in recognition of his PhD research. Read More >

UBC leads effort to improve treatment of diabetic retinal disease
June 20, 2016David Maberley hopes to create diagnostic nodes in several small rural hospitals. Read More >

A potential early warning sign of transplant rejection
June 16, 2016Kirk Schultz and colleagues found higher levels of an inflammatory protein in people with chronic graft-versus-host disease. Read More >

Bringing health knowledge behind the walls
June 15, 2016MD students taught health to young offenders at Burnaby Youth Custody Services -- and in the process, learned a few things themselves. Read More >

Genomics can determine end of tuberculosis outbreak
June 14, 2016Researchers from UBC and Imperial College London were able to determine if patients were infected recently or years before. Read More >

UBC welcomes Santa Ono as 15th President and Vice-Chancellor
June 13, 2016Dr. Ono, the President of the University of Cincinnati, has a PhD in Experimental Medicine and specializes in immunology, eye inflammation and macular degeneration. Read More >

New Life Sciences Institute gallery attracts a crowd
June 10, 2016The gallery features images taken by researchers in the institute. Read More >

A link between osteoporosis drugs and macular degeneration
June 9, 2016Mahyar Etminan found that oral biphosphonates were associated with a doubling of the risk of getting the disease. Read More >