Articles

The video and discussion guide, A Coming Together of Health Systems, features traditional practitioners, Elders, and Western health care professionals. Elder Gerry Oleman is pictured.
Clinical Articles / April 2020 BY: Antonia Hyman, MSc, Elizabeth Stacy, MA, Kaitlin Atkinson, MPaH, Helen Novak Lauscher, PhD, Jon Rabeneck, Gerry Oleman, Penny Cooper, MALT, BScN, RN, Wendy Young, PhD, Carol Kellman, BScN, RN, Kendall Ho, MD, FRCPC

In 2010 the interCultural Online Health Network (iCON) at the University of British Columbia set out to explore problems faced by Indigenous peoples in British Columbia seeking health and wellness.... Read More

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Clinical Articles / March 2020 BY: Matthew Boroditsky, BHSc, Rebecca Courtemanche, MSc, CCRP, Douglas J. Courtemanche, MD, MS, FRCSC, Sandra Robertson, BSN, RN, Christine Loock, MD, FRCPC

Background In 1965 Dr Angelo DiGeorge first described the syndromic presentation of infants with thymic aplasia, hypoparathyroidism, and cardiac outflow tract anomalies.[1,2] DiGeorge syndrome was... Read More

Ice hockey players face off on indoor rink
Clinical Articles / March 2020 BY: Hilary Drake, BSc, Courtney Zimmerman, BTech, CPHI(C), Guy Osachoff, CPHI(C), Greg Baytalan, BSc, CPHI(C), Muddassir Siddiqui, BDS, MPH, Gillian Frosst, BSc, MPH, Silvina C. Mema, MD, MSc, FRCPC

Case data On 12 February 2019, a hospitalist physician at the Kelowna General Hospital contacted the Interior Health on-call medical health officer (MHO) to report a cluster of respiratory illness... Read More