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Future eating disorder prevention programs to target ‘body-checking’ behaviours
New research by Dr. Shannon Zaitsoff, Dr. Jennifer Coelho and their team suggests that body-checking behaviours — like frequent weighing or scrutinizing one’s body in the mirror — could be key targets for eating disorder prevention programs.
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Poison Prevention Week campaign focuses on children and cannabis
This week, the BC Injury Research and Prevention Unit (BCIRPU) is promoting safe storage of cannabis products to prevent children from consuming them.
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Congratulations CIHR Grant Recipients!
Congratulations to the BC Children’s and BC Women’s investigators who were awarded funding through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project Grant Fall 2020 competition. Our research community received around $6 million in new research grants.
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