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Clinical Articles /
BY: Maggie Wong, PharmD, ACPR
June 2022
... effort, antimicrobial resistance is predicted to kill more people than cancer by the year 2050.[ 1 ] The human cost is ...
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 ...
Beyond Medicine, COVID-19 /
BY: Jocelyn Y. Wong
October 2022
... generating feelings of hesitancy among pregnant people and people who plan to conceive. Recently, vaccine clinical ... A Canada-wide study, CANCOVID-Preg, reported that pregnant people with COVID-19 infection have a stillbirth rate of ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Sahil Kumar, MSc
January/February 2022
... health and well-being of transgender and gender-diverse people. Clinical Articles Gender-affirming surgical care in ...
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 ...
President's Comment, COVID-19 /
BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD
May 2021
... collective trauma (a traumatic event shared by a group of people) being used to describe the COVID-19 pandemic. I often ... But trauma carries different meanings for different people. For some, trauma means broken bones and ruptured ... necessarily true of the pandemic. That’s not to say people haven’t suffered; we have seen far too many deaths; ...
Editorials, COVID-19 /
BY: Yvonne Sin, MD
December 2021
... all they have known. My daughter thinks it is normal for people to wear masks and that we rarely have play dates ...
President's Comment, COVID-19 /
BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD
March 2021
... there is another reason why listening is so important. People do not want to follow people who don’t listen. It’s a fundamental human need to ... minutes per day to scan through the viewpoints of credible people, then I could get on with my life. I did have a good ...
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.” ...