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Smartphone health apps miss some daily activity of users
December 7, 2017

Smartphone health apps miss some daily activity of users

If you use your smartphone to monitor your physical activity, you’re probably more active than it suggests. A new UBC study finds that the iPhone’s built-in pedometer missed about 1,340 steps during a user’s typical day.

LATEST NEWS

 

The stock market gets SAD in winter, too

When the mercury drops and daylight hours dwindle, winter blues set in for many people. Financial analysts are no exception, according to new UBC Sauder School of Business research, which found that seasonal affective disorder (SAD) also has an impact on the stock market.

Transgender youth avoid health care due to discomfort with doctors

Close to half of transgender young Canadians aren’t accessing health care when they need it, according to a new study from the University of British Columbia.

OPINIONS

 

Free-trade deal with China needs clear, enforceable rules

The Province published an op-ed by Pitman B. Potter, a UBC law professor, about Prime Minister Trudeau’s visit to China to discuss the possibility of a future bilateral free trade agreement.

ARTS AND CULTURE

 

Curator tour of Amazonia: The Rights of Nature

Join MOA Curator Nuno Porto on a special curator’s tour of Amazonia: The Rights of Nature. This tour will explore the creative ideas that inspire Indigenous resistance to threats faced by the world’s largest rainforest.

ATHLETICS

 

Hailey Counsell signs with UBC women’s basketball

Hailey Counsell, a member of Basketball BC’s Under-17 provincial team, will be joining the UBC Thunderbirds women’s program next season.

VIDEO

 

Lunch with Duncan McCue

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by UBC Reads Sustainability and the R. Grant Ingram Distinguished Speaker Program.
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