Childhood Diseases
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Exploring the ethics of direct contact between pediatric transplant recipients and donors
Non-anonymized direct contact between organ recipients and donor families is a topic of international interest in the adult context. However, there is limited discussion about whether direct contact should be extended to children who have received organ transplants due to concerns of the potential harm to pediatric patients.
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BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute treks to the Kootenays
For high school students, thinking about the future can be daunting, especially given the seemingly limitless options ahead of them. Dr. Ramon Klein Geltink was in a similar position — “I never knew what I wanted to do until I started working in a lab during my undergraduate degree,” he says. “I worked with a…
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How are COVID-19 mRNA vaccines linked to the gut microbiome and dietary fibre intake?
Dr. Genelle Lunken (formerly Healey) is a microbiome investigator at BC Children’s Hospital and an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Lunken recently led a study looking at COVID-19 vaccination and its association with the gut microbiome and dietary fibre intake.
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