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Letters / BY: Phyllis Reeve July/August 2024
... team, and it was indeed a highlight for all concerned. The people of Vernon were especially proud because Ralph was born ...
Letters / BY: Jill Norris, MD, CCFP May 2024
... and have come to this conclusion: good health care enables people to live their best lives. Good health care shows up ...
Letters / BY: Mark Mallet, MD, CCFP March 2024
... [ BCMJ 2023;65:365-366]: “as many as 225 000 [people] are at risk of poisoning from unregulated drugs, [but] only 4476 people were prescribed safe supply medications in July ... The impression these numbers give is that fewer than 5000 people out of 225 000 are receiving treatment. In both Dr ...
Review Articles / BY: Natasha Benson, MD, FRCPC September 2024
... with Health System Redesign funding, care of pregnant people with possible cytomegalovirus during pregnancy and ... sudden hearing loss at 3 months old.” “Pregnant people should be advised of [cytomegalovirus], even something ... in-person and telephone consultations for pregnant people, caregivers, and children. The clinic includes ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Tracy Barber, RPT, Grad Dip Phys June 2024
... it is increasingly recognized as also impacting younger people. International data from the Global Burden of Disease ... osteoarthritis can be particularly problematic for younger people who may need to manage their osteoarthritis alongside ... where to find additional information if needed. How people receive this information may also be important, ...
Letters / BY: Michael Schwandt, MD, MPH March 2024
... decreased drug poisoning and all-cause mortality among people receiving safer supply.[ 1 ] The number of people at risk of illicit drug poisoning in BC is large, and ... a team of BC researchers identified a provincial cohort of people with substance use disorder comprising 162 099 ...
Clinical Images / BY: Lu Kun Chen, MD Early online
... countries along the tropics and affects approximately 1.81 people per 100 000.[ 2 ] The fungal agent may initially ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Nicola Y. Edwards, MHA January/February 2023
... the opioid crisis and provide effective intervention. Many people who die of opioid overdose have recently interacted ... an opportunity for intervention. In one analysis, 77% of people had contact with the health care system in the year ... ( P = .0006). Discussion Our results indicate that people who present with an opioid overdose have frequently ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Michelle Ng, MD, CCFP June 2023
... Service Pilot Project and compares this with the number of people in BC who described each language as their only mother ... 3.6% (n = 838). For all of BC, the number of calls per 100 people with limited English proficiency was 15.1. Vancouver had 46.9 calls per 100 people with limited English proficiency, followed by Nanaimo ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Hannah Gibson, MBChB May 2023
... were recorded among those experiencing homelessness.[ 5 ] People who are homeless also experience low levels of ... 11 ] and showed that overall health care expenditures for people who had been homeless were significantly lower after ... supportive housing as “an effective intervention for people with complex health and social needs . . . ...