Posts Tagged ‘Health’

How to define the quality of life when illness limits what you can do

March 5, 2014 | Filed under: Media Advisory | Tags: Faculty of Health and Social Development, Health, Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention, School of Nursing

Health care experts will discuss how to improve quality of life for people living with advanced life-limiting illnesses.

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Is medical cannabis the answer to chronic joint pain?

February 3, 2014 | Filed under: Media Advisory | Tags: Health, Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences, Zach Walsh

Researchers discuss benefits of medical cannabis for those with arthritis.

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UBC nursing students develop handbook for African hospitals

January 29, 2014 | Filed under: Media Releases | Tags: Faculty of Health and Social Development, Health, School of Nursing

Students share knowledge with fellow nurses in Zambia and Ghana.

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Dads in Gear Website launch kicks off National Non-Smoking Week

January 17, 2014 | Filed under: Media Releases | Tags: Faculty of Health and Social Development, Health, Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention, School of Nursing

UBC program aims to help young men kick the butt habit

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UBC professors join China's tobacco research centre

December 19, 2013 | Filed under: Media Releases | Tags: Faculty of Health and Social Development, Health, Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention

Joan Bottorff, Professor in the School of Nursing, UBC Okanagan and Director of the Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention, John Oliffe, Professor in the School of Nursing, UBC Vancouver, Gayl Sarbit, Knowledge Broker, UBC Okanagan and Aimei Mao, Postdoctoral student at UBC are pictured here with Dr. Tingzhong Yang, Professor/Director, Centre for Tobacco Control Research at Zhejiang University, School of Medicine.

Two UBC professors have been invited to join China’s Centre for Tobacco Control Research as International Senior Consultants.

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Chemical complexity of plants sprouts to life in UBC science lab

December 3, 2013 | Filed under: Media Releases | Tags: Christina Turi, College of Graduate Studies, Health, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences

Christina Turi works like a detective – the clues she follows uncover mysteries of the plant world.

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UBC research study looks at muscle change in healthy, older adults

December 2, 2013 | Filed under: Media Advisory | Tags: Faculty of Health and Social Development, Health

The UBC Healthy Exercise and Aging Lab Group in the Faculty of Health and Social Development is looking for healthy older adults, aged 65 to 95 years, to participate in a study on muscle change and physical activity.

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Nursing researchers seeks family caregivers for end-of-life study

November 22, 2013 | Filed under: Media Releases | Tags: Faculty of Health and Social Development, Health, School of Nursing

A School of Nursing research team is seeking to recruit families involved in caring for family members dying of cancer.

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A brief history of medical science topic of public presentation

November 21, 2013 | Filed under: Media Advisory | Tags: Faculty of Health and Social Development, Health, Learning

When it comes to advances in medicine, there have been remarkable discoveries over the ages. Through education, improved care, elimination of disease and aid of technology, medicine has helped create a healthier, longer-living society in the Western world.

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