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As overdose death rates have risen in this population, life expectancy has increasingly narrowed. The life expectancy of people living with HIV in British Columbia has increasingly declined in recent years due to a troubling rise in overdose deaths in the population, aidsmap reports. Martin St-Jean, MSc, of the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed how we all live and work. It’s also changed how we do science. At Providence Health Care, our research community has been faced with shuttered labs and offices, financial uncertainty, and a rapid shift to virtual research environments. In this Q&A series, we’re asking PHC researchers and research staff to

Enhanced training for those who collect specimens for COVID-19 testing can help increase the accuracy of diagnostic results, according to a new study led by SFU health sciences PhD student Natalie Kinloch. Kinloch, a Vanier scholar and research assistant at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, worked with health sciences professor Zabrina Brumme and

Aniqa Shahid, a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS), has been successful in the CIHR doctoral research competition, winning the Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarships Doctoral Award. In addition to supporting her current research, this award will help her with future applications for post-doctoral research opportunities, as well as

Can you provide a brief overview of your lab’s current research focus? Before the pandemic, our lab studied HIV genetic diversity at the within-host and population levels, towards the ultimate goal of designing preventive (e.g. vaccine) or curative strategies. After COVID-19 emerged however, we, like other virology laboratories across the globe, pivoted our research programme

Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) PhD student and Vanier scholar Natalie Kinloch recently led a study that was published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, showing that improper collection of nasopharyngeal swabs is a major cause of false-negative COVID-19 diagnostic tests. She has been with the Faculty of Health Sciences since 2010, completing a BSc

New research has poured cold water on the theory that the Covid-19 outbreak in Washington state – the country’s first – was triggered by the very first confirmed case of the infection in the country. Instead, it suggests the person who ignited the first chain of sustained transmission in the United States probably returned to

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The following is a brief roundup of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus. New coronavirus antibody test highly accurate A new antibody test is highly accurate at determining whether people have been infected with