An important and unprecedented collaboration between Canadian surgeons, obstetricians/gynaecologists, and family doctors aims to address the wave of closures of maternity services and small-volume surgical programs in rural parts of Canada.
The Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, a Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) centre, has topped 193 research sites around the world having recruited the most participants for an international clinical trial investigating the efficacy of a new multiple sclerosis (MS) drug called ocrelizumab.
A new evidence-based guideline published recently in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) gives Canadian physicians the tools they need to better treat patients with iliofemoral deep vein thrombosis (DVT) (blood clots in the deep veins of the thigh and groin). Vancouver Coastal Health researcher and interventional radiologist at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH), Dr.
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.
