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February 25, 2019

Study shows toddlers may not be getting enough of essential nutrient
A new BC Children’s Hospital and University of British Columbia study published in The Journal of Nutrition – the first to investigate choline nutrition in North American toddlers – shows that over 70 per cent of one-year-olds and over 50 per cent of two-year-olds are not meeting the recommended adequate intake for this essential nutrient.…
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February 5, 2019

Congratulations CIHR Project Grant Recipients!
We are pleased to congratulate 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 2018 competition. Our research community received more than $5.3 million in new grants through this competition.
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November 27, 2018

New method makes it easier to study the connection between difficult experiences and mental health
Can stress early in life – or even in the womb – make us susceptible to health problems as teens or adults? Mental health conditions like anxiety and depression often run in families, but typically aren’t the result of a single genetic mutation. So what causes them? If we understood how emotional trauma affects our…

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