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Mapping the match results
March 2, 2016Fourth-year UBC MD students students celebrated the results of the first round of the Canadian Resident Matching Service (CaRMS) on March 2. Read More >

Donation enables enriched training in kidney care
March 2, 2016Marcia Bell's $1 million gift will provide training for all members of the Division of Nephrology in state-of-the-art techniques. Read More >

Genetic counselling can dispel misconceptions of psychiatric illness
February 24, 2016Jehannine Austin showed that genetic counselling reduces stigma and increased patients' perceived control over their illness. Read More >

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 >