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News September 2016
... services across Canada. It is estimated that 1 in 20 people experience depression each year. Joseph Puyat, a PhD ... or psychotherapy. They found that only 13% of people received at least four psychotherapy or counseling ... underestimate the full extent of the problem since many people do not seek or receive a diagnosis for their ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP June 2016
... are capable of ignoring the conditions which make muted people suffer. The dissatisfied dead cannot noise abroad the ... to result in death. But medicine’s ability to rescue people from the cliff of sudden fatal illness has led to the ... being aware of what specialized palliative care can do for people with advanced illness is the standard of care today. ...
News May 2016
... 5-year, $59 million initiative to reduce the number of people who need dialysis or organ transplants, or who develop ... •    Broader screening, especially among indigenous people, who are more at risk of developing chronic kidney ... •    New ways of providing care, especially for people who live far from kidney specialists. One clinical ...
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 / 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 ...
News September 2016
... won the AGE-WELL Pitch Competition: Technology to Support People with Dementia. The tablet-based assessment tool ... from the samples. Because of word-finding difficulties, people with Alzheimer disease will tend to pause more between ... provide family members with quantifiable updates, and help people plan when it’s time to transition to a higher level ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jennifer Smith, BFA January/February 2016
... public health and has reported that more than 1.2 million people are fatally injured every year.[ 1 ] Although Canada ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Alan T. Bates, MD, PhD June 2016
... 2 ] Kierkegaard also explored the emotions of people making significant life decisions, and certainly there ... and question can elicit further information: “Sometimes people are afraid they’re not going to wake up. Is that ... have the same desires and interests as other young people, such as wanting to make friends and being interested ...
News May 2016
... issue [ BCMJ  2016;58:42 ], we included a photo of five people signing the purchase agreement for the Doctors of BC ... in November 1985. We were unable to identify three people in the photo and asked you to e-mail us if you could ... flips through her husband Dr Rick Helmer’s journal, the people in the photograph have been identified. They are, ...
News October 2016
... by a layperson to medicine or to the welfare of the people of British Columbia or Canada. The closing date for ...