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High-throughput sequencing lab at TRU a first for BC Interior
March 01, 2017 - 2:13 PM

Thompson Rivers University will soon be home to the first high-throughput genomic sequencing lab in BC outside of the Lower Mainland, thanks to a $291,000 investment from Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund.
Emergency department expansion launched at Merritt hospital
November 07, 2016 - 3:24 PM

MERRITT - Emergency health services in the Coquihalla corridor will be strengthened thanks to a planned expansion and renovation of the Nicola Valley Hospital and Health Centre's emergency department.
Volunteer Highlights for Feb. 5 to 12
February 05, 2015 - 11:10 AM

Special Olympics - Kamloops
Student nurses, physicians solve emergency cases together
March 03, 2014 - 10:33 AM

Simulation lab provides health-care collaboration in a safe setting

UBC Okanagan nursing and med students are training side by side for the first time.

Medical students start work in the clinical setting in their third year, and this is the first, third-year class from UBC’s Southern Medical Program to have an opportunity to work in hospitals and clinics in BC’s Interior.
Chemists discover 23 new molecules in red wine
August 13, 2013 - 12:29 PM

Medical breakthroughs among potential benefits of research findings

Scientists have long espoused the health benefits of red wine. Now UBC chemists have discovered 23 new molecules that could mean there are even more vino virtues.

Assoc. Prof. Cédric Saucier, who runs the Enology laboratory at UBC’s Okanagan campus, has spent years trying to determine what is really going on in that glass of red wine.
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iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability. Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo

Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

Manitoba government plans to lift ban on homegrown recreational cannabis
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is planning to end its ban on homegrown recreational cannabis — a move that would leave Quebec as the only province with such a restriction. "We're just allowing Manitobans to have the same

Kamloops council to expand tax exemptions for new rental builds
Developers have more land to choose from if they want to cut costs on new rental buildings in Kamloops. The City is looking to expand a tax exemption program to span massive swaths of Kamloops in order to encourage development. Previously r

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High-throughput sequencing lab at TRU a first for BC Interior

Emergency department expansion launched at Merritt hospital

Volunteer Highlights for Feb. 5 to 12

Student nurses, physicians solve emergency cases together

Chemists discover 23 new molecules in red wine

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