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Happy Ever After? How Marriage Impacts Our Health & Happiness

We are in the midst of a marital revolution. Your grandmother probably never felt that she had the option of staying single, and once married she probably had little say in how that marriage was organized. Your mother knew that staying single was an option, but marriage in her generation looked very much like her grandmother’s marriage. Today, like never before,…
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Call for Abstracts – due October 21st: RESEARCH DAY: THE FUTURE OF HEALTH

Join us for a Research Day focused on the Future of Health November 8th, 2019 from 12:30pm to 3:30pm, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, Rudy North Lecture Theatre (LL101) Discover various research activities conducted by students and trainees from some of UBC’s Research Excellence Clusters. Students from the  Dynamic Brain Circuits in Health…
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call for Abstracts -Due October 25: Libin International Trainee Symposium

Women’s Cardiovascular Health Initiative This year, 70,000 Canadians will have a heart attack. Despite men being affected twice as often as women, cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death for women in Canada, claiming a life every 20 minutes. Globally, one in three women will die as a result of heart disease or stroke. Untold others have diminished…
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