BC Centre for Disease Control

Secondary prevention techniques (e.g., screening mammography) allow for early detection of cancer and reduction in mortality at the population level.[1] In Canada, the Canadian Task Force on... Read More

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is taking a devastating toll globally. As of May 2020, there have been 76 000 cases of COVID-19 confirmed in Canada, including 2446 cases and 146 deaths in British... Read More

11 May 2020 As of mid-May 2020, more than 2000 diagnosed cases of COVID-19 in British Columbia were reported to public health.[1] The epidemic in BC began with the first lab-confirmed case... Read More

Multimorbidity, the co-occurrence of two or more disease conditions (2+), manifests itself in manifold challenges in the present-day health management of patients. Multimorbidity has been one of the... Read More

Clinicians in British Columbia have been responding to COVID-19, the novel coronavirus that originated in late 2019 in Wuhan, China. The virus subsequently spread to countries around the globe,... Read More