Posts Tagged ‘Canadian Institutes of Health Research’
Sep. 10, 2012 | Filed under: Media Release, News Feed | Tags: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Cambodia, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Canadian International Development Agency, health, HIV/AIDS, international engagement, Kenya, malaria, neglected global diseases, NGDI, research excellence, tuberculosis
Researchers with the Neglected Global Diseases Initiative (NGDI) at the University of British Columbia have attracted more than $20 million in funding to find ways to eliminate diseases and conditions that kill millions of people in developing countries worldwide.
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Jul. 20, 2012 | Filed under: Media Release, News Feed | Tags: Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Faculty of Medicine, FoM, health, Ministry of Health, Pacific Parkinson's Research Centre, Parkinson's disease, research excellence, School of Population and Public Health, SPPH, WorkSafeBC
Severe influenza doubles the odds that a person will develop Parkinson’s disease later in life, according to University of British Columbia researchers.
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Jun. 21, 2012 | Filed under: Media Release, News Feed | Tags: Brain Research Centre, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, cancer, Faculty of Medicine, FoM, health, Michael Smith Foundation, multiple sclerosis, research excellence, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute
Multiple sclerosis (MS) patients appear to have a lower cancer risk, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health. The study, published online in the journal Brain, is the first to investigate overall cancer risk in MS patients in North America. “Because the immune system [...]
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May. 14, 2012 | Filed under: Media Release, News Feed | Tags: Bike, bikeability, BikeScore, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, cycling, FoM, health, SPPH, sustainability, walkability, WalkScore
University of British Columbia researchers are making bikeability research easily accessible to consumers and city planners by introducing bikeability “heat maps” in partnership with Seattle-based Walk Score® at www.walkscore.com/bike.
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Mar. 16, 2012 | Filed under: Media Release, News Feed | Tags: AllerGen, antibiotics, asthma, Biomedical Research Centre, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, children, CIHR, FoS, Genome British Columbia, health, Michael Smith Laboratories, Microbiology and Immunology
Widely used antibiotics may increase incidence and severity of allergic asthma in early life, according to a University of British Columbia study.
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