B.C. residents can book an appointment through the province’s Get Vaccinated program, which sends out text messages, by calling the Get Vaccinated centre at 1-833-838-2323 or by checking with a local ...

The flu causes millions of illnesses, hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations and tens of thousands of deaths each year in the US.

As flu season arrives, a new highly infectious COVID-19 variant, Stratus (XFG), is driving a surge in US cases, first identified in Southeast Asia. Wi ...

Let’s be honest. When a dog tests positive for heartworm, there’s a particular kind of quiet that falls over the exam room. It’s not a simple diagnosis. It’s the start of a long, difficult, and ...

In a new study, Yale School of Medicine (YSM) researchers unveiled a novel diagnostic method for detecting leptospiral virulence-modifying (VM) proteins in the blood and urine of hamsters, an advance ...

Researchers discuss the effects of azelastine nasal spray on the rate of SARS-CoV-2 infection as compared to placebo.

The first successful human transplant of a kidney converted from blood type A to universal type O used special enzymes developed at UBC.

“This is the first time we’ve seen this play out in a human model. It gives us invaluable insight into how to improve long-term outcomes,” said Dr. Stephen Withers, UBC professor emeritus of chemistry ...

Detect influenza viruses quickly and easily with chewing gum or a lollipop: German researchers from Würzburg, Braunschweig and Cologne demonstrate with a new diagnostic tool how this works.

Meinel and his colleagues arrived at a crafty cost-cutter: using one of the body’s own molecular detection systems, the tongue. They came up with a molecule that, in the presence of a viral enzyme, ...

The first successful human transplant of a kidney converted from blood type A to universal type O used special enzymes developed at the University of British Columbia to help prevent a mismatch and ...