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Towards evidence-based public health for sex workers in British Columbia
Youth and women working in Vancouver’s sex industry are among the most marginalized and vulnerable in Canadian…
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Treatment of drug-resistant influenza: Rationally designed inhibitors of viral neuraminidase
Each year the influenza virus infects approximately 10% of the human population, resulting in hundreds of thousands…
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Understanding the mechanisms of experience and injury based cortical plasticity
Strokes are caused by the interruption of blood flow or the rupture of blood vessels to the…
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Alterations in neural circuits mediating executive and decision making functions by chronic psychostimulant exposure
Emotional processes and higher order executive functions are governed in part by interconnected neural networks that link…
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Analysis of Integrin Function in Muscle Formation and Maintenance
Cells in multi-cellular organisms such as humans are arranged in highly complex three-dimensional structures. The cells attach…
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Bioinformatic approaches for the interpretation of cancer genomes
The rapidly developing field of genomics is providing increasingly powerful tools to investigate our genetic make-up and…
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British Columbia Burden of Injury
Injuries are a significant public health problem in BC. Every year about 1,600 British Columbians die due…
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Building the Evidence-base to Support Rural Maternity Health Services Policy and Planning
Dr. Stefan Grzybowski is a family physician clinical investigator and co director of the Centre for Rural…
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Causal Attributions and Self-Conscious Emotions in Coping with Alcoholism
Although there are large individual differences in recovery rates from alcoholism, little is known about the emotional…
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Cognitive decline through normal aging to dementia and death: Identifying early risk factors and targeting effective interventions
The number of Canadians older than 65 is steadily increasing, a trend that will continue over the…
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Community Learning Centres: A Model of Community Engagement in Health, Education & Training
There are disproportionately high rates of poor health among First Nations populations in comparison to the general…
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Determining the effects of monoaminergic regulation of frontostriatal systems in different aspects of impulsive decision-making.
Impulsivity is a characteristic of human behaviour that can be both beneficial and detrimental in our everyday…
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