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).
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.
