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Clinical Articles / BY: Ivana Jakovljevic, MD October 2016
... by 25% in British Columbia since 2008. Over 97 000 people used the food bank last year in BC, with 31% of users ... specific questions for families with children, seniors, people with disabilities, and First Nations patients living ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM May 2016
... events than immunizing those who are susceptible; in such people, pre-existing immunity will interfere with replication ...
News September 2016
... and excelled in any field of endeavor to benefit the people of the province or elsewhere. Dr Allen Eaves Dr Eaves ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Mark Gilbert, MD, MHSc, FRCPC March 2016
... this isn’t the case for everyone. Each year in BC many people at higher risk of acquiring these infections face ...
News July/August 2016
... two families described in this study, two-thirds of the people with the mutation developed the disease. Canada has ... form of the disease, accounting for about 15% of people with MS. The discovery could also provide insight into ... Centre for Brain Health, suggests that the mutation puts people at the edge of a cliff, but something still has to ...
News / BY: Dirk van Niekerk, MD, FRCPC October 2016
... of symptoms, pregnancy history, and substance use. Young people, particularly women under the age of 25, experience ... screening. Opportunities for STI screening among young people Primary care providers should offer STI risk ... screening: Need for continued STI screening among young people in the era of new cervical cancer screening guidelines ...
News May 2016
... the study strongly support routine HCV screening for all people born between 1945 and 1964, in line with recent US CDC ...
News September 2016
... by a layperson to medicine or to the welfare of the people of British Columbia or Canada. Closing date for ...
News / BY: Claire Campion Wright, BSc, March 2016
... heart disease, and stroke, but medical advances mean that people are living longer after diagnosis. The Heart and ... to Canadian emergency departments. Some 105 000 of these people survive and join the more than 1.3 million Canadians ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Hortense Tabien Nsoh, MD July/August 2016
... Pregnant women. Infants, young children, and elderly people. Are air cleaners effective? Air cleaners with HEPA ... wildfire smoke, so the best defence is to be prepared. People with chronic diseases should carry rescue medications ...