BC Centre for Disease Control

While many patients have good access to testing for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) through their family physician or a sexual health clinic, this isn’t the case for everyone. Each year in BC... Read More

Carbon monoxide (CO) exposure is an important but under-appreciated health concern. CO is the leading cause of accidental poisonings in homes, with exposure resulting in severe cardiovascular and... Read More

It is rare to find a health intervention that both improves a standard of practice and reduces costs, but this seems to be the case for the Do Bugs Need Drugs? program in BC. The World Health... Read More

The incidence of infectious syphilis (i.e., primary, secondary, early latent) has increased nearly fivefold from 2010 to 2015 in BC, and is projected to further increase in 2016 (Figure 1). Men who... Read More

Influenza vaccine has been administered to pregnant women since the 1950s, initially to those with high-risk medical conditions such as chronic heart or lung disease and later to health care workers... Read More