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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 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ahmad Abdullah, MD, April 2016
... North American incidence is 8 to 12.6 cases per 100 000 people.[ 4 ] To our knowledge, data are not currently ...
News / BY: Jessica A. Otte, MD, CCFP, July/August 2015
... do not read it. It explains the harms of turning people into patients—or worse, consumers—and the ... bias that more is better. “Doctors tend to be vocational people who want to do good things: if you found out that your ... care, and gathering the courage to joyfully care for people the way you’ve always known was right. —Jessica ...
News March 2015
... for patients on the organ transplant wait list. Over 450 people in BC are currently waiting for a lifesaving ...
News October 2015
... (BC-CfE), has found the overall life expectancy of people living with HIV who have initiated antiretroviral ... which recommend that ART should be initiated for all people living with HIV regardless of CD4 count, to ensure the ... clinical response. News Study: Life expectancy of people living with HIV in Canada reaches 65 ...