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Canadian podcast pediatric medicine researchBest Lives — The podcast from BCCHR

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Get an inside look at the latest pediatric research from BC Children's Hospital Research Institute — told by the researchers themselves. Each episode is under 30 minutes and designed to be clear, engaging, and inspiring — whether you're a parent, health care professional, or just curious about child health.

Research Roundup: March 2022

Mar 18, 2022
This month’s Research Roundup covers the potential link between prenatal alcohol exposure and the development of rheumatoid arthritis, genetic factors that influence cardiac safety of a common anti-nausea medication, and patient responses to learning about their “surprise” genetic disease susceptibilities.

Congratulations CIHR Fall 2021 Project Grant Recipients!

Feb 23, 2022

Congratulations to the BC Children's Hospital Research Institute (BCCHR) and Women’s Health Research Institute (WHRI) investigators and their teams who were awarded funding through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Fall 2021 Project Grant competition. Our research community received around $6 million in new research grants as principal investigators or co-investigators.

Introducing the Live 5-2-1-0 app!

Feb 10, 2022
Supporting health behaviour change in children can be challenging. Even when you work together with families to set healthy lifestyle goals during appointments, it can be difficult to keep patients motivated in between visits. The Live 5-2-1-0 app is designed to motivate children ages 8-12 to adopt healthy behaviours related to nutrition, screen time and physical activity through simple customized goal-setting and fun weekly challenges.

Building the first Canadian national pediatric diabetes registry from a framework of equity, diversity and inclusion

Feb 3, 2022
Dr. Shazhan Amed is the nominated principal investigator for CAPACIty, a network of 10 childhood diabetes centres across Canada working together with patients, families and health-care providers to build the first Canadian national pediatric diabetes registry.

Research Roundup: January 2022

Jan 20, 2022
This month’s Research Roundup covers how increasing parent-child proximity in the first days of life can improve toddler behaviour later on, what lean body mass can tell us about the health of pediatric kidney transplant recipients, insights into the barriers to knowledge translation in Canadian pediatric health-care centres, and an evaluation of the effectiveness of saline gargle COVID-19 tests.

BCCHR researchers awarded CIHR funding to mitigate COVID-19 pandemic impacts on children, youth and families

Jan 13, 2022

Congratulations to the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (BCCHR) investigators and their teams who were awarded funding through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Operating Grant: Understanding and mitigating the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on children, youth and families in Canada.

Dr. Lori Brotto, in her words

Dec 13, 2021

Dr. Lori Brotto is a women's sexual health specialist and executive director of the Women's Health Research Institute at BC Women's Hospital + Health Centre. In advance of the Women in Science event she's moderating, Feb. 10, she talks about finding her focus, how her research into women's sexual health has evolved, and erroneous stereotypes.