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UBC Okanagan’s Assistant Professor Mary Jung sent emails to study participants encouraging them to increase calcium intake.

Daily reminders to increase calcium intake are effective

By Patty Wellborn on November 29, 2016

UBC researchers have demonstrated that simple, cost-effective email messages can help improve the health habits of Canadians.

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Marie Tarrant, director of nursing at UBC's Okanagan campus.

Pregnant women at risk of getting the flu are not getting vaccinated

By Matthew Grant on November 22, 2016

Health-care professionals are hesitant to administer the flu vaccine to pregnant women, despite the potential life-saving benefits, according to a UBC study.

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UBC's Glen Foster, seen holding breathing apparatus in his lab, is researching the health impacts of sleep apnea.

Sleep apnea immediately compromises blood pressure

By Patty Wellborn on November 17, 2016

A single bout of sleep apnea impacts the human body’s ability to regulate blood pressure.

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UBC Okanagan Assoc. Prof. Zach Walsh says the government needs to do a rethink when it comes to medicinal cannabis as new research indicates more and more people are substituting cannabis for prescription drugs, including opiate pain killers. Darren Hull photo.

Marijuana could help treat drug addiction, mental health

By Matthew Grant on November 16, 2016

Using marijuana could help some alcoholics and people addicted to opioids kick their habits, a UBC study has found.

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While working in a rural clinic in Zambia, UBC nursing students work and learn alongside fellow nurses from the host country.

UBC nursing students raise funds for healthcare in Ghana and Zambia

By Patty Wellborn on November 3, 2016

Each spring, students in UBC Okanagan’s School of Nursing travel to Zambia or Ghana to complete a global health practicum. To help fund this project, the students host the Global Gala, a formal dinner and silent auction open to the community.

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POWERPLAY, developed by UBC researchers, provides tools for workplaces to encourage male employees to take off their boots and get some physical exercise.

UBC research aims to increase health of men in blue-collar jobs

By Patty Wellborn on November 1, 2016

Despite studies that show men generally want to be healthy, there are very few workplace programs designed specifically for men that encourage healthy lifestyles.

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UBC's Heather Gainforth holds a nicotine inhaler, a popular tool with people trying to quit smoking.

People trying to quit smoking don’t always focus on tobacco cessation

By Matthew Grant on October 25, 2016

Fifty per cent of statements made by smokers during counselling sessions designed to help them stop have nothing to do with quitting, a UBC study has found.

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HatTrick participant Kevin Lavigne and poses with Kelowna Rockets mascot Rocky the Raccoon.

UBC researchers team up with Kelowna Rockets to support men’s health

By Patty Wellborn on October 20, 2016

UBC Asst. Professor Cristina Caperchione is teaming up with the Kelowna Rockets to offer HAT TRICK; an innovative healthy lifestyle program to help local men increase physical activity, improve nutritional habits, and enhance their social connectedness.

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UBC professors share insight about the brain during Mini-Med

UBC professors share insight about the brain during Mini-Med

By Patty Wellborn on October 19, 2016

The human being’s most critical organ, the brain, is the topic of this year’s Mini-Med series.

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UBC psychology professor Mark Holder.

UBC prof. examines romantic relationships and happiness of psychopaths

By Patty Wellborn on October 5, 2016

Popular television series like Dexter and Criminal Minds have given a renewed high profile to psychopaths. And while pop culture makes it appear psychopaths get everything they want, a UBC researcher wants to know if they are truly happy.

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