The emergency department’s role in providing life-saving care can extend into longer-term treatment plans for people with opioid use disorder (OUD). Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute researcher Dr. Jessica Moe and clinical pharmacy specialist Dr. Katherin Badke researched emergency department health care worker perceptions on connecting people with OUD to the first-line treatment, buprenorphine/naloxone (Suboxone).
Artificial intelligence (AI) applications are revolutionizing health diagnostics and precision medicine, yet how they identify patterns of disease in layers of data has largely remained a mystery. Research led by Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute researcher Dr.
Phase 1/2a Open-label Study to Evaluate Safety, Tolerability and Preliminary Efficacy of NG101 AAV Gene Therapy in Subjects With Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration
A recent rise of measles cases have been reported across Canada, including the first case in B.C. since 2019. Our Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute researcher Dr. Manish Sadarangani explains how the disease is transmitted, what symptoms to look for and how to avoid contracting it.
Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Using His/Left Bundle Branch Pacing vs Biventricular Pacing with a Left Ventricular Epicardial Lead in Patients with Heart Failure (HF) with Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction (LVEF) ≤ 50% and with either a Wide QRS Complex (greater than 130 ms) or with/anticipated greater than 40% Pacing Randomized Clinical Trial (RCT)
The ability to communicate with the world through sign language from a young age gave Jonathan MacDonald a leg up from his older brother. Both children of a total four siblings were deaf; however, MacDonald was taught American Sign Language (ASL) after his parents saw the challenges MacDonald’s brother faced trying to learn and speak verbal English.
