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    How to talk to your teen about distracted driving

    It’s a trend injury researchers have come to expect: Rates of distracted-driving related crashes spike in the summer months and long weekends and can lead to more accidents. In 2016, nearly one-third of all distracted-driving related deaths in BC occurred in July and August alone.

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    Congratulations CIHR Grant Recipients!

    We are pleased to congratulate the BC Children’s and BC Women’s investigators who were awarded funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project Grant Spring 2018 competition, as well as the BC Children’s investigators who received funding from the recent CIHR Foundation and Team Grant competitions.

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    A protein that helps prevent diabetes could be a target for future treatments: Q&A with Thilo Speckmann

    In Dr. Francis Lynn’s lab part of the Canucks for Kids Fund Childhood Diabetes Laboratories at BC Children’s Hospital, researchers are going deep inside the inner workings of cells to study how diabetes develops on a molecular level. Diabetes occurs when these cells stop producing insulin or when the body stops recognizing and responding to…

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