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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Eleni Galanis, MD, MPH, FRCPC June 2014
... Salmonella  infection reported, up to 37, 47, and 49 people, respectively, are infected in the community. ...
News June 2014
... professionals to work more effectively with Aboriginal people and organizations. The centre will aim to boost ...
News June 2014
... distracted by salient but irrelevant information when people want to focus on a particular item or task. Dr John ... 2009. But, until now, little was known about how it helps people ignore visual distractions. Authors of the study ... are now turning their attention to understanding how people deal with distraction, and looking at when and why ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP July/August 2014
... illness is one of the morbidities.[ 2 ] We know that people with multimorbidity have reduced quality of life, ... person who is lost among the cognitive impairment. When people with dementia do not have family members to represent ... if the information is not good—can all be healing. People will often forget what you told them but will always ...
News July/August 2014
... has found that synapses that are too strong can hinder people’s capacity to learn new things by affecting the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: James G. Huang, MD, PGDipSurgAnat, FRACS, September 2014
... in  Table 2 . PSA increases with age and is higher in people of certain races, such as African Americans. ...
News / BY: Shannon Waters, MD, September 2014
... (FNHA) supports frequent HIV testing for Aboriginal people in BC. The new BC HIV testing guidelines urge health ... 5 years for the general population.[ 1,2 ] Aboriginal people are included in “populations with a higher burden of HIV infection,” together with gay men, people who inject drugs, people who work in the sex trade, ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC October 2014
... such as children, youth, pregnant women, nursing mothers, people with heart conditions, and the elderly.[ 9 ] Despite ... will be a gateway to conventional cigarette use in young people by exposing them to nicotine[ 11-12 ] and by ...
News / BY: Ian A. Cameron, MD, October 2014
... of the day. At the end of the book, his interviews with people who lived and worked at William Head are an engaging ...
News October 2014
The quality of health care that people receive may be as important as controlling the risk ... Rural Epidemiologic (PURE) study tracked more than 156 000 people in 17 countries and revealed that low-income countries, where people have the lowest risk factors for cardiovascular ...