Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) plays a role in improving patient care in B.C. and around the world with the annual VCHRI Innovation and Translational Research Awards. The Awards are intended to help put knowledge into practice. This year, we are again proud to support innovative research that will implement research outcomes and turn discoveries into opportunities for better health and improved therapies.
Congratulations to the 2016 Innovation and Translational Research Awards recipients:
Lung cancer continues to be the most common cause of cancer death in Canada and around the world. Each year, it kills 20,000 Canadians. That’s more than breast, prostate, cervical, and colorectal cancer combined. Although the prospect of surviving clinically diagnosed lung cancer is often bleak, a tool that calculates a person’s risk of developing lung cancer offers new hope by allowing for potentially life-saving early detection of the disease.
The health benefits gained from a good night’s sleep now include a reduced risk of injury on the job. A recently published study in Thorax comparing individuals with diagnosed sleep apnea and a control group who tested negative for the sleep disorder showed that individuals with untreated sleep apnea were twice as likely to get hurt at work.
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).
