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Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Anthony W. Chow, MD, FACP, FRCPC May 2022
... where one infectious diseases physician served 110 000 people in 1987, Canada delivered only one infectious diseases ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ingrid Cosio, MD, CCFP January/February 2022
Transgender, gender-diverse, and Two-Spirit people who access gender-affirming care have elevated rates ... harassment, and violence.[ 2 , 4 ] Gender-diverse people report barriers to accessing health care, and lower ... to the health and well-being of gender-diverse people. Improving access to care Accessibility to and quality ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Omair Arshad, MD July/August 2022
... use is increasing at an alarming rate among young people. Hammond and colleagues found that in their ... that e-cigarettes may be a risk factor leading people toward combustible cigarette use. A meta-analysis ... meaning that there are common factors that drive people to use both combustible and e-cigarettes, but the two ...
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: Rahel Zewude, MD May 2022
... site of inoculation, diffuse rash, or new visual symptoms; people with reported contact to syphilis; or pregnant ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Philippa Hawley, FRCPC November 2021
... but the principles of cancer pain management apply to people living with many other serious chronic illnesses.[ 2 ] ... to loss of autonomy and the ability do the things that people used to enjoy, and because of fear of a painful ...
BC Centre for Disease Control, COVID-19 / BY: Jason Wong, MD, MPH, CCFP, FRCPC January/February 2021
... response measures are likely to disproportionately impact people with fewer resources, poorer health, and those already ... over time, particularly for younger populations.[ 4 ] People who use drugs are a subpopulation acutely affected by ... to mitigate these unintended harms and better support people who use drugs during the pandemic.[ 7 ] Not all ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP November 2021
... through the bowel, but this makes them well tolerated in people on dialysis or with significant renal failure.[ 8 , 9 ... suited to Patient A’s pharmacogenomics. Up to 25% of people have polymorphisms in the genes that control opioid ... rate of ultrarapid metabolism at 21%, and Europeans and people of Jewish lineage have the highest rate of poor ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Samantha Pawer, BSc May 2021
... and youth. Among 10- to 17-year-old Canadians, 2140 young people were hospitalized due to self-poisoning during the ... provide free mental health services for children and young people up to 18 years old in BC, although a 2019 BC Coroners ... administered to a large representative sample of young people age 14 to 21 in Victoria, BC, in 2003 and 2005, 17% of ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Sarah B. Henderson, PhD November 2021
... ranging from 90 to 130 most days. On 29 June 2021, 380 people died across the province [ Figure ]. There were 1630 ... suggests that high temperatures simply killed hundreds of people who would probably still be alive had the weather ... neighborhoods with lower socioeconomic status, where more people live alone and where there is less protection provided ...