Congratulations to the BC Children’s and BC Women’s investigators who were awarded funding through the highly competitive Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project Grant Fall 2019 competition. Our research community received more than $8 million in new research and bridge grants.
Falls send more Canadian children to hospital with injuries than any other cause, followed by car and cycling collisions, according to a new interactive website created by BC Children’s Hospital researchers in collaboration with partners at York University in Toronto. Drowning is the least common reason for a hospital visit after burns and choking.
Not only do parents of children with Type 1 diabetes need to watch their child’s blood sugar levels, they also need to pay attention to their kid’s blood pressure.
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