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Improving health care for immigrant and refugee kids: New website targets professionals working with newcomer families

Jul 25, 2013
Immigrant and refugee kids face many of challenges when they arrive in Canada. As a health professional, you're there to help them. To help you, our partners at the Canadian Paediatric Society have launched a www.kidsnewtocanada.ca, an online guide for health professionals working with immigrant and refugee children, youth and families.

CFRI’s Vaccine Evaluation Centre: 25 years of protecting children against disease

Jul 5, 2013
Since the Vaccine Evaluation Centre (VEC) was founded as the first of its kind in Canada in 1988, the centre’s investigators have completed over 225 research studies with findings that have contributed towards developing new vaccines, improving vaccine safety, and refining public immunization programs.

New playground gear promotes risk-taking to boost fitness and brain development

Nov 19, 2012
Risk can be useful training for children, recent scientific articles assert. In a report in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, CFRI researcher and UBC Psychologist Dr. Mariana Brussoni and colleagues suggest risky play ultimately keeps children safer by allowing them to learn how to take and manage risk.