Evidence to Innovation
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The truth about concussion in children and youth: ‘It’s a traumatic brain injury’
The human brain is fragile and intricate, and it’s the only organ that cannot be transplanted. Now imagine the brain inside a child’s still-developing skull, subjected to the sudden jolt of a fall, head-to-head hit in sports, or even a bump on the playground. What happens next can change a young life.
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Why measuring doctor workload matters
Dr. Quynh Doan has a difficult but rewarding job. When sick kids and their families come to the BC Children’s Hospital emergency department, she gets them the help they need as fast as she can. Often, many emergency situations happen at the same time and prioritizing what to do first is difficult.
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Cutting-edge genomic technology to help improve medication safety for children in new BC Children’s led study
For the past 20 years, the Canadian Pharmacogenomics Network for Drug Safety (CPNDS) has been working to identify why patients have different responses to drug treatments. As part of a recent $200 million Genome Canada initiative, Dr. Bruce Carleton will be leading a new $17 million project to expand on the work of the CPNDS to make medications safer for…
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