Following funding cuts by the provincial government, the University of British Columbia has announced that it will take over financing of the Therapeutics Initiative, a drug safety and efficacy... Read More

Five projects by members of the UBC Faculty of Medicine have been selected to receive $6.2 million in funding from Genome Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. The projects will be... Read More

An engineering research team from SFU has won $100000 from Grand Challenges Canada toward the goal of developing an antibiogram add-on for smartphones that will show which antibiotic is appropriate... Read More

If a patient experiences a serious or unexpected adverse reaction because of any health product, Health Canada asks that you report it directly to them. In this way, you can help identify previously... Read More

A major international study has found that gene sequence differences crucial to the maintenance of our chromosomes’ integrity predispose us to certain cancers.  Angela Brooks-Wilson, an... Read More