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News November 2016
... of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Medicine, identified that people think COPD will soon be a problem of the past because ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ivana Jakovljevic, MD October 2016
... by 25% in British Columbia since 2008. Over 97 000 people used the food bank last year in BC, with 31% of users ... specific questions for families with children, seniors, people with disabilities, and First Nations patients living ...
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 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: Bakul Dalal, MD, July/August 2016
... and at a rate of approximately 5 to 10 cases per million people.[ 1 ] Patients with PNH lack a protein called ... and at a rate of approximately 5 to 10 cases per million people. Now that a highly effective treatment is available ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jaclyn R. Farquhar, MD July/August 2016
... one in four adult Canadians, or about 6.3 million people, were obese. Since 2003, the proportion of obese ... been well quantified is the care gap that can occur when people with an illness need but do not receive treatment.[ 33 ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP July/August 2016
... that family caregivers provide 70% to 75% of care for people receiving home care in Canada.[ 2 ] Based on the 2012 ...
News July/August 2016
... two families described in this study, two-thirds of the people with the mutation developed the disease. Canada has ... form of the disease, accounting for about 15% of people with MS. The discovery could also provide insight into ... Centre for Brain Health, suggests that the mutation puts people at the edge of a cliff, but something still has to ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Hortense Tabien Nsoh, MD July/August 2016
... Pregnant women. Infants, young children, and elderly people. Are air cleaners effective? Air cleaners with HEPA ... wildfire smoke, so the best defence is to be prepared. People with chronic diseases should carry rescue medications ...
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. ...