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News&Notes / BY: Jay Draper December 2016
... that has conducted member and employee research in the health care sector for 20 years. We received hundreds of ... report: BCMJ 2016 Member/Reader Research report (PDF) News&Notes BCMJ member research results ...
News November 2016
... forecasting analyses, combining population statistics and health data for BC, and concluded that between 2010 and 2030 ... that factor is often ignored. Lead author Amir Khakban, health economist in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at ... and the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, notes that age-adjusted COPD rates have remained constant as ...
News / BY: Claire Campion Wright, BSc, March 2016
... longer after diagnosis. The Heart and Stroke Foundation notes that there are roughly 70 000 heart attacks in Canada ... and join the more than 1.3 million Canadians living with health impacts from heart disease or stroke. If you were ... would you have the financial freedom to attend to your health? The average hospital stay after a stroke is 16.1 ...
News July/August 2016
... the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health have proven that multiple sclerosis can be caused by a ... Research Chair at UBC and director of Vancouver Coastal Health’s MS and Neuromyelitis Optica Clinic, notes that if a person has this gene, chances are they will ...
News July/August 2016
... SFU Professor Diane Gromala supervised the work and notes that the game is the latest in the lab’s efforts to develop virtual reality approaches to address health care issues. Professor Gromala holds a Canada Research ...
News&Notes April 2015
... epigenome. The project, called the National Institutes of Health Roadmap Epigenomics Program, provides a core set of ... for studying the role of the epigenome in human health and disease. In particular, the paper “Integrative ... the program, visit  www.roadmapepigenomics.org . News&Notes BC researchers unravel health/disease map ...
MDs To Be / BY: Greg Costello, June 2015
... hopefully have better answers for him then. I make some notes as I walk to the intensive care unit to see a patient I ... Many thanks to all the physicians, nurses, and allied health care and medical program support staff involved in the ...
News&Notes / BY: Chris Fraser, MD, January/February 2014
... illnesses. Surrounded daily by the overwhelming, horrific health consequences and human suffering imposed by the ... finds hope and inspiration in his accomplishments. News&Notes Special feature: My improbable encounter with Nelson ...
News&Notes / BY: Lila Yewchuk, MD, FRCPC, March 2014
... and following the recommendations of an independent Child Health BC report, the BC government announced a new, ... parents no longer have to choose between their child’s health and their family’s financial security. One father ... the Unsafe at School website as they are available. News&Notes Special feature: Safe at school at last ...
News&Notes / BY: Neil Pollock, MD, October 2014
... Dr Jeffrey Klausner, a professor of medicine and public health at UCLA, and asked him to find an expert willing to ... in Haiti, and a wonderful start to a sustainable public health initiative.  Despite the challenges ahead, my ... for surgeons from various regions of Rwanda.   News&Notes Teaching a technique to improve health in Haiti ...