As the global climate changes we are seeing more intense and frequent forest fires in British Columbia. Forest fires cause some of the worst air pollution that many Canadians will ever experience, and smoke affects everyone in exposed communities.

Data access has been approved for a research project to determine the genetic causes of systemic inflammation in patients in Intensive Care Units (ICU) after cardiac surgery.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease of the central nervous system, affecting over 90,000 Canadians, and more than 2.5 million persons worldwide. MS is costly, burdening affected persons and society.

Breast cancer represents more than one quarter of new cancers diagnosed in Canadian women, with an estimated 25,000 new cases diagnosed in 2015.