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Why medicine for kids is more than a smaller adult dose
More than half of all children receive at least one prescription medication a year. Despite this, few drugs have pediatric formulations. In North America and Europe, more than 75 per cent of pediatric prescriptions are considered off-label, meaning children are being prescribed medications that were never studied in their age group. Off-label use is associated…
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BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute: A year of innovation and breakthroughs
For the first time ever, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute has produced a mini Year in Review to publicly share a snapshot of research accomplished during the past fiscal year.
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Vriti Bhagat awarded Vanier scholarship for diabetes research
Diabetes is a disease in which the body either can’t produce insulin (type 1), or the insulin the pancreas does produce doesn’t work well (type 2). This chronic condition affects over half a billion people worldwide, including 5.7 million Canadians, and can lead to complications such as stroke, blindness and amputation. People with diabetes need…
