Clinical research – research focused on improving patient care – is a central part of the BC Children’s Hospital mission. It allows researchers to learn about health conditions by directly studying patients and to move to medications, diagnostic tools, and treatments out of the laboratory and into the hospital where they can save and improve…
It’s not every day that you get a visit from a patient that you worried might not make it. Last month, eight-year-old Isa Guerrero and his family paid a visit to Dr. Pascal Lavoie and his research team at BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute. Dr. Lavoie is a BC Children’s Hospital investigator and neonatologist at…
“The first 1,000 days is the most important time for children in every aspect of growth and development,” says Dr. Crystal Karakochuk, investigator and clinical dietitian at BC Children’s Hospital. “No other time has as great an impact on lifelong health.”
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