The Island Health Research department is pleased to announce a Clinical Research Education Symposium in Victoria on Tuesday, May 3rd. This year, VIHA is returning to a grass roots focus on education that addresses practical issues related to compliance and conduct that are faced on a daily basis in the complex clinical trials environment.
This registration is for the video-conference site at VGH.
One of Vancouver’s largest demographics may be facing a significant risk to their health and slipping through the cracks of the health care system. Dr. Hiram Mok, a Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute scientist, is concerned that Asian men may be at increased risk for depression as a result of the masculine norms they follow.
Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) scientist Dr. Gillian Hanley’s latest study, done in collaboration with the Surveillance team at Perinatal Services BC, questions the research that informs the counselling and recommendations that many British Columbian women get about how long to wait after giving birth before getting pregnant again – also known as an interpregnancy interval (IPI).
Open a medicine cabinet in Canada and you’ll likely find a few containers of old or expired medications. Some of those medications might be leftover opioids – strong painkillers, such as oxycodone, hydromorphone, and morphine, which are often prescribed to treat short-term moderate to severe pain after surgery. Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute scientist Dr. Raymond Tang finds such easy accessibility to opioids troublesome, particularly given the increasing rates of opioid addiction in Canada and the U.S.
Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) scientist Dr. Andrew Krahn would not normally describe himself as “the old man”, but when talking about the next generation of heart and lung researchers recently recruited at VCH and the Centre for Heart and Lung Health, the title does not bother him at all.
In 2013, the small Vancouver Island seaside municipality of Sidney drafted a resolution to regulate the use of three- and four-wheeled motorized scooters because of the safety risks they were posing to pedestrians, traffic, and the scooter operators themselves. Regulation was seen as an opportunity to mandate operation and safety training for the motorized mobility devices. Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) scientist Dr. Ben Mortenson is currently conducting a scooter training and education feasibility study, in part because of such community-identified safety issues.
It’s a familiar scenario: after a stressful day at work, the last thing most people want to do is make a time-consuming dinner. Instead, they’ll choose to eat something quick and low-effort at the expense of taste and nutrition. A recently published paper co-authored by Vancouver Coastal Health Research Scientist Dr.
In recent months, B.C. has seen a sharp increase in the rate of accidental overdose deaths with drugs like fentanyl and W-18, which can be fatal at very low doses, hitting the streets disguised as other street drugs. But even prior to recent events, illicit drug overdoses have been on the rise in the province since 2011. The current system alerting people who use drugs (PWUD) about dangerous contamination or a spike in overdose deaths lags a week or two behind the data, putting lives at risk and highlighting the need for a better warning system.
