Illness prevention and health care promotion are the driving forces behind the work that Doctors of BC’s Council on Health Promotion (COHP) and its five subcommittees (Athletics and Recreation,... Read More
Council on Health Promotion
According to recent popular press, coconut oil is the latest miracle food. The claims regarding coconut oil are that it boosts brain function in people with Alzheimer disease; improves thyroid and... Read More
Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are products that deliver an aerosol by heating a solution typically containing nicotine in propylene glycol or glycerol with flavoring agents. Controversy and... Read More
The 2014 Active Healthy Kids Canada Report Card[1] was released amid much fanfare at the Global Summit on the Physical Activity of Children held in Toronto this May. In this report card, Canada was... Read More
“It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.” —William Osler Multimorbidity is the new normal in hospital. It seems almost... Read More