Across Canada, health care institutions are increasingly under pressure to stretch resources and shrewdly allocate funds in ways that result in positive health outcomes for patients. A study co-authored by Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute scientists Dr.
Dr. J. Mark FitzGerald never planned on being a respirologist, but in the early 1980s while working as a general internist in Lesotho, Southern Africa, for two years, he witnessed the devastation caused by tuberculosis and lung diseases and it changed his life’s direction.
A revolutionary discovery announced last week by scientists at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver Coastal Health, and the BC Cancer Agency revealed that a protein found in malaria could one day lead to the targeted destruction of cancer cells. The research team, including Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute scientist Dr.
As though suffering from depression was not challenging and debilitating enough, some sufferers find no relief from treatment or experience side effects to medications that make taking them impossible. An estimated 22 per cent of Canadians with major depressive disorder have such treatment-resistant depression (TRD). While the situation may seem hopeless, one therapy called repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has shown significant efficacy as a non-invasive procedure with minimal side effects, offering a viable treatment option.
Contrary to the saying, sticks and stones aren’t breaking kids’ bones – or not their forearms, at least. Approximately one in three children and adolescents1 will get a bone fracture. Most of these will be of the forearm2 and they peak during early-to-mid puberty, which are times of more rapid growth.
Although the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved the drug Addyi™ (flibanserin) – also known as “the female Viagra”, even though it does not work like Viagra – for women with low sex drive, its serious potential side-effects and contraindications (warranting a black box label on the medication) suggest that it may not be the answer for all women with low libidos. Luckily, women with sexual desire problems have access to a different drug-free and side-effects-free option. The therapy is called mindfulness – the practice of non-judgemental present moment awareness.
