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Clinical Articles / BY: Patrick Ho Pun Wong, MD, FRCPC June 2022
... B has a worldwide prevalence of more than 250 million people.[ 2 ] Areas with high endemicity include Asia, Africa, ... and parts of South America. In Canada, up to 480 000 people may be infected.[ 3 , 4 ] The population groups with ... include immigrants from endemic countries, Indigenous people, and people who inject drugs.[ 4 ] In BC, local ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Emily Wiesenthal, BA March 2022
... gender identity. Transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) people express interest in parenthood at similar rates as ... as transgender or gender-diverse, and 40% to 54% of TGD people desire to be parents.[ 1 , 2 ] Overall, a small but ... it is essential that health care providers counsel TGD people about the options for fertility preservation before ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: O. Maheshwari, MD November 2022
... the age of 40 years.[ 2 ] In British Columbia one in four people experience a mental health condition each year.[ 3 ] ... of the pandemic,[ 6 ] which disproportionately affected people who were already experiencing health inequities prior to the pandemic: women, LGBTQIA2S+ people, individuals with likelihood of job loss or inadequate ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM June 2022
... population ranged from 49.7 to 121.3 in 2019,[ 18 ] most people with such a rash will have Lyme disease. However, in ... is warranted. Basic laboratory testing, as recommended for people with chronic fatigue, includes a complete blood count ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Rahana Harjee, MD, FRCSC April 2022
... pre- and mid-pandemic. These results are reassuring to people seeking fertility treatment, many of whom might ...
Proust for Physicians November 2022
... the Indigenous family medicine program, nurturing amazing people. Who are your heroes? My older brothers, who always ... your favorite patients share? It’s less about individual people and more about the moments I’ve had with many people, where we meet in our humanness during surreal moments ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Haile Zapata-Dixon June 2022
... immigration to Canada reached a record high of 436 689 people, which represented 80% of Canada’s total population ... pediatric patient was hospitalized with melioidosis. Young people aged 16 to 18 years were more commonly diagnosed with ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Anthony W. Chow, MD, FACP, FRCPC May 2022
... where one infectious diseases physician served 110 000 people in 1987, Canada delivered only one infectious diseases ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Jason Wong, MD, MPH, CCFP, FRCPC December 2022
... screened for syphilis at 28–32 weeks of pregnancy.[ 5 ] People delivering a stillborn infant after 20 weeks’ ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marshall Dahl, MD, PhD, FRCPC January/February 2022
... to understand an individual’s needs. For example, some people who identify as nonbinary in the transmasculine ... Endocrine treatment of transgender and gender-diverse people ...