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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM June 2019
... (MMR) vaccine is safe and effective, and most people have no adverse reaction following receipt of this ... or recent travel history, do not test for measles. Do people born before 1970 need to be immunized against measles? ... routine use will need to rely on vaccine-derived immunity. People born before 1970 are generally considered immune to ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC December 2019
... context and magnitude can drastically change how people read them. When we teach medical students about ... to get breast cancer. That sounds pretty scary to most people. Fortunately, doctors are trained to rely on the ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Brandon Yau, MD July/August 2019
... consumption and subsequent excretion in urine or when people flush pills into the wastewater system.[ 3,5,10 ] ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD March 2019
... I feel less guilty because I remind myself that making people laugh has been his lifelong mission. Recently friends ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB September 2019
... work that brought me into contact with many memorable people who were far removed from my way of life—alcoholics, ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Sofia R. Bartlett, PhD March 2019
... for a particular disease, and the number or portion of people progressing through each stage, thereby helping to ... BC demonstrates continued gaps in treatment uptake among people with a history of injection drug use.[ 4 ] Curing hepatitis C virus among people who inject drugs can prevent transmission to others, ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD October 2019
... “How will traffic be?” “Shouldn’t be bad as many people are at the island festival.” “So Icelandic people like festivals?” “I wouldn’t know as I am ... are similar, and when it comes to alcohol, Icelandic people are descended from Vikings so horns of ale abound. I ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD April 2019
... divorces, aging parents, and so much more. These people are my rocks and I know they have my back through ... of work colleagues. I have spent more time with these people than I have with most of my family and friends, yet I ...
Editorials / BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD October 2019
... first set of cheaters, the last moments of life. I mean, people do document these things, but sharing them proudly ... we are always transitioning. In life, as we get older, people tend to just become more invisible, especially women. We exist, we keep on going, but for most people, it’s as though there is a mute on being interesting ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Shaila Jiwa, RN, BScN, MScPPH April 2019
... infectious agent.[ 1 ] In 2017, an estimated 10 million people developed TB disease globally, resulting in an ... deaths, with 300 000 of those deaths occurring in people living with HIV.[ 1 ] TB is not just an international ...