The environmental justice literature has described differential health effects of environmental toxins and pollutants on people of different socio-economic status (SES) that may not always reflect differing levels of exposure. We offer four questions or contentions that together may contribute to understanding this conundrum and then present an empirical exploration of one of these questions: D...

Patrick J. Keeling, John P. McCutcheon, and W. Ford Doolittle Botany Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4; Program in Integrated Microbial Biodiversity, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 1Z8; Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812; and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhou...

Rising majestically from the heart of the South-West peninsula, Dartmoor has been described as the highest, wildest land in England south of the Pennines. This area contains the richest concentration of archaelogical remains in the British Isles stretching over 365 square miles of remarkably contrasting countryside which was designated a National Park in 1951. The many relics of its history and...

Shengwen Shen,† Xing-Fang Li,† William R. Cullen,‡ Michael Weinfeld, and X. Chris Le*,† †Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, 10-102 Clinical Sciences Building, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2G3 ‡Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, 2036 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 1Z1 Department of Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute,...

Author affiliations: University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada (C. Hogan); University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (A. Wilmer, M. Badawi, L. Hoang, M. Chapman, N. Press, M. Romney, M. Murray); King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (M. Badawi); British Columbia Centre for Disease Control Public Health Microbiology and Reference Laboratory, Vancouv...

1 PERFORM Centre, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada 2 Research Center, Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada 3Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 4Department of Physical Therapy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada 5 Brain Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Coastal Health Resea...

The University of British Columbia (UBC) became the first university in Canada to develop a strategy for enhancing global access to its technologies. UBC's University-Industry Liaison Office, in collaboration with the UBC chapter of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM), established a mandate and developed principles that provide the developing world with access to UBC technologies...

Samuel Shephard1,*, Joseph L. Thorley2, Deirdre Brophy1, Jan G. Hiddink3, David Stokes4 and David G. Reid4 Marine and Freshwater Research Centre, Department of Life Sciences, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, Dublin Road, Galway, Ireland Poisson Consulting Ltd, 4216 Shasheen Road, Nelson, British Columbia, Canada V1L 6X1 School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University, Menai Bridge, Anglesey LL5...