The ‘gold standard’ abortion pill mifepristone was recently approved for use in Canada. Health Canada has however imposed strict regulations. What does that mean for Canadians? We sat down with Drs. Wendy Norman and Judith Soon to find out.
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Ubyssey Science sat down with Dr. Ian Scott, the director of the Centre for Health Education Scholarship to discussed the role of physicians in the opioid crisis and where he sees the future of the management of the epidemic heading.
The team think your phone could prescribe you drugs in the not-so-distant future. By taking a sample of your saliva, it may be one day possible to differentiate the drugs that will cure you from the ones that will kill you.
Somewhere, deep within the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, there are giant robotic arms at work. While unsuspecting student study the robot is busy moving books, maps, records and more — going largely unnoticed by students.
Magic mushrooms, psychedelics, psilocybin mushrooms – call them what you want. We all want to talk about them. Buckle up class, it’s going to be a wild trip. Shrooms are one of the more popular hallucinogenic drugs in Canada.
Last year The Ubyssey decided to dive into the world of science and technology. Here’s our mandatory, self-congratulatory post about the coolest things we’ve done in the last 372 days (yes, we missed our own birthday).
The news started making it’s rounds across Vancouver Facebook on Wednesday when it was reported that winds could surpass 100 kph and the Vancouver area could see over 100mm of rain. But those predictions aren't accurate — here's why.
How would you like having to get up too early to go wait for a job you feel like you aren’t getting paid enough to do? For most of us a prospect like that doesn’t sound terribly appealing, but for construction workers it's reality.
The AMS app brings together useful features but if you’re short on phone space, it's not worth it. The app features maps that give advice like where to get beer and that hooking up in the Aquatic Centre puts you at risk of skin rashes (yikes).
Nobel prizes for 2016 had been released last week. It’s been awhile since UBC has had Nobel Laureates within its ranks, but it doesn’t mean all UBC's research is any less awesome. This week there are diseases back from the dead and designer pills.
The probe will orbit the sun for a year before ultimately catapulting itself into an intersecting course with the asteroid Bennu using Earth’s gravitational field. The two will intersect and OSIRIS will attempt to collect a sample from the surface.
The weather might have started to get cold, but UBC researchers deliver hot studies and findings all year round. Here are a few “hot” UBC research to check out while you wrap yourself with your blanket scarf and sip on your Pumpkin Spice Latte.
“The key thing to remember is that sound travels as compression and expansion waves in the air. It’s that sound that goes down towards the benches — that’s what is reflected back to you," said said Jared Stang, a physics postdoc
At Vancouver’s annual Interior Design Show, UBC PhD student Felix Böck stood in front of a slab of 100,000 chopsticks, which weighed 450 kilograms. It is a conservative estimate for how many chopsticks the Vancouver metro area discards daily.
A study led by Jamie Veale, a lecturer at The University of Waikako, and UBC prof Elizabeth Saewyc, suggests that pregnancy rates among transgender youth in Canada are similar to those in the population of cisgender youth.