With the trend of an app for just about everything these days, a team of researchers from several universities, examined the success of a mobile app designed to help young adults quit smoking.
UBC Okanagan’s Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention has teamed up with Interior Savings Credit Union and the Interior Health Authority to present dozens of free events and activities to mark Embrace Aging Month.
From advances in chronic disease interventions to improving wireless communications, innovative research projects at UBC Okanagan are attracting national attention.
While age may just be a number, how well we age impacts the quality of our later years.
Despite studies that show men generally want to be healthy, there are very few workplace programs designed specifically for men that encourage healthy lifestyles.
Questions about assisted death have been a water cooler topic ever since the federal government passed legislation to allow physician-assisted deaths two weeks ago.
Aging is inevitable. Yet, taking steps to aging well can make life better now and over the long term.
Researchers find peer support a key to successful quitting.
UBC professor discusses how regular exercise can help prevent falls.
Research challenges cannabis’ reputation as gateway drug.