UBC Health Mentors Program
UBC Health Mentors Program You can’t always stop the rain, but wouldn’t it be nice if there was an umbrella for everyone? Vancouver, BC May 4, 2015 As a survivor [...]
Medical student creates art classes for people living with brain injuries
New idea tackles depression and social isolation while creating useable art work Second-year medical student Maksim Parfyonov has always had a keen interest in neuroscience. And art. When he was [...]
70 Tips to Fall Asleep Faster, and Stay Asleep Longer.
We all sleep and we all dream. Some nights it is easier to fall asleep. Other nights it's a battle. After having some trouble with sleeping these past couple of [...]
Fred UnLEEshed: Feb. 13, 2015
BRAIN HEALTH: Margaret Trudeau headlined the B.C. Brain Injury Association’s annual Cocktail Fundraising Gala. Torrential rain did not deter guests who filed into the Winsor Gallery to hear from the [...]
Time to Get Honest About Being Disabled
Coming to grips with having a disability has taken me many years. Unlike many who have had challenges from the start, the first forty-nine years of my life were spend [...]
Margaret Trudeau to Inspire as Headline Speaker at BCBIA February Gala
Margaret Trudeau to Inspire as Headline Speaker at BCBIA February Gala Jan. 15, 2015 – Vancouver – Margaret Trudeau, mental health advocate, famed Canadian speaker and former wife of Pierre [...]
Stem Cell Therapy Study may help victims of stroke
Stem cell treatment could help stroke victims survive serious brain damage, the first human trial of its kind has suggested. The pilot study, conducted by doctors at Imperial College Healthcare [...]
Blueberries could help heal brain injuries
It’s been said you can have too much of a good thing. But a researcher at Memorial University’s school of pharmacy says nothing could be further from the truth when [...]
Schoolboy’s pictures of a life with brain injury are acclaimed
A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD boy with brain injury has had his therapeutic artworks displayed at a major London art gallery. Ben Whymark, from Didcot, volunteered to paint pictures for the Oxfordshire-based Child [...]