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We caught up with Dr. Robert McMahon, the founder and director of the Institute for the Reduction of Youth Violence at Simon Fraser University, to learn more about bullying and how to help kids dealing with underlying behavioural problems. 

Parents want to feed their kids the right foods and the correct balance of key nutrients. But it's not always easy to tell the difference between helpful advice and harmful trends that have made their way into the mainstream. Dr. Rajavel Elango of BC Children’s Hospital is here to help. 

The new Canadian Child Safety website displays injury rates by type and province in the style of a report card. Visitors can see where evidence-based prevention policies have succeeded, and where more work needs to be done.

According to a new study, children with Type 1 diabetes have six-fold greater odds of abnormal blood pressure than children without the disease, even from the very beginning.

New research by Dr. William Gibson identifies multiple families with a gene defect that leads to a rare childhood overgrowth syndrome.

Dr. Joseph Ting is leading a new national study examining how many days each newborn receives antibiotics, which antibiotics they receive and incidences of multidrug-resistant organisms.

Understanding the human mind is a millennia’s old pursuit, but it wasn’t until the 1970s that researchers were first able to peer into the brain without using a scalpel. Dr. Alexander Weber is a new investigator researching how to improve and combine different ways of using imaging to give doctors the information they need to improve childhood health.

Dr. Jessica Dennis is working to harness big data to enable personalized medicine. She’s using large population health datasets to discover how a person’s genes and environment can affect their likelihood of developing disease, their response to treatment and ultimately, their recovery.

A first long-term study of its kind confirms that two doses of the HPV vaccine are just as effective as three doses at providing immunity. The study, conducted by researchers at BC Children's Hospital, BC Women's Hospital, and UBC Faculty of Medicine, supports the World Health Organization's recommendation for two-dose HPV vaccine schedules. 

A new BC Children’s Hospital study provides hope for children with Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Dr. Laura Sly is investigating how a drug approved 60 years ago could help kids today. The study shows that a drug made of pooled antibodies can reduce inflammation associated with ulcerative colitis. 

BC Children's Hospital and Vancouver Community College presented their spring/summer 2020 fashion collection at the Vancouver Kids Fashion Week in October. The collection featured elements inspired by science's favourite model organisms.