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Marijuana ineffective as an Alzheimer's treatment: UBC-Vancouver...

EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Sun, 02/07/2010 - 23:00

(University of British Columbia) The benefits of marijuana in tempering or reversing the effects of Alzheimer's disease have been challenged in a new study by researchers at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute.


 

New understanding about mechanism for cell death after stroke le...

EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Sat, 11/21/2009 - 23:00

(University of British Columbia) Scientists at the Brain Research Centre, a partnership of the University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, have uncovered new information about the mechanism by which brain cells die following a stroke, as well as a possible way to mitigate that damage.

The results of the study were recently published online in Nature Medicine.