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Family Practice Services Committee / December 2017

Residential Care Initiative: Early data show impact and successes

By: Brian Winsby, MD, Darcy Eyres

The GPSC’s Residential Care Initiative (RCI) was launched in 2014, with the goal of improving care for one of BC’s most vulnerable populations—seniors living in care facilities.[1] All divisions of... Read More

Council on Health Promotion / December 2017

New BC Pediatric Nutrition Guidelines

By: Vanessa Perrodou, RD, Paul Martiquet, MD, CM, CCFP, MHSc

Relevancy to practice In the era of “Doctor Google” and celebrity nutrition experts, the need for evidence-informed nutrition information to support health care practitioners in communicating... Read More

WorkSafeBC / November 2017

Carbon monoxide toxicity

By: Sami Youakim, MD, MSc, FRCP

Carbon monoxide (CO) is a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas that is the by-product of incomplete combustion of organic material. It is a chemical asphyxiant, and its toxicity involves the... Read More

News / November 2017

Unique study compares cancer incidence and survival between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in BC

The first study to compare the development of and survival from cancer between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in British Columbia, conducted jointly by the BC Cancer Agency and First Nations... Read More

News / November 2017

Study finds up to one-quarter of cancer patients use marijuana

A new US study conducted in a cancer centre in a state with legalized medicinal and recreational marijuana found that approximately one-quarter of surveyed patients used marijuana in the past year,... Read More

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BCMJ

The BCMJ is a general medical journal that shares knowledge while building connections among BC physicians.

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ISSN 0007‍-‍0556 (Print)
ISSN 2293‍-‍6106 (Online)
Established 1959