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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 / BY: Emily Ertel, MD November 2022
... has 196 beds and serves a catchment of more than 125 000 people. Patients require transfer to Kelowna General Hospital ...
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 ...
News, COVID-19 July/August 2021
... bloodstream. Oxygen levels below 95% are found among people with pneumonia—another symptom of a severe COVID-19 ...
Premise, COVID-19 / BY: Nickie Mathew, MD, MSc, ABPN, FRCPC, ABPM January/February 2021
... parts of heroin, sugar, and other substances. He has seen people make fentanyl twice by mixing carfentanil with other ... Another downside was dealing with overdoses: “Some people can’t take it because you are killing people. What you’re selling can kill someone.” ...
News, COVID-19 May 2021
... if they are eligible for early vaccines designated for people who are clinically extremely vulnerable, and, if they ...
Editorials, COVID-19 / BY: David R. Richardson, MD April 2021
... Significant numbers of vaccine refusals are likely as people worry about potential adverse health outcomes. ... terrible virus. It is estimated that roughly 300 million people died from smallpox in the 20th century. Its case ...
Editorials, COVID-19 / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB October 2021
... from worry). It isn’t only thanks to having some special people in my life. I believe that many of us are starting to ... nevertheless frustrated, like the rest of you, that some people are choosing to remain unvaccinated. We have all heard ... working at a vaccine clinic recently, I reassured some people, tongue in cheek, that the vaccine they were receiving ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Tonia Tauh, MD, FRCPC March 2021
... A rapid vaccine rollout has many roadblocks, from some people’s initial hesitancy to receive a novel vaccine to ... supply, our society must balance vaccinating as many people as possible in short order with the strict timing ... there was no difference in vaccine efficacy between the people who got their second dose at day 19 and the people who ...