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Letters November 2010
... “Marijuana is not approved for use as a drug in Canada. Health Canada states that “no marijuana product has been issued a notice of compliance” and notes that indications, safety and risks have not been ... certain symptoms from which they suffer can apply to Health Canada for authorization to possess and use marijuana ...
News May 2010
A new report released in March by the BC Physician Health Program recommends better workplace arrangements for ... mutually acceptable solutions to ensure maternal and fetal health and well-being. The report notes that in the prevailing medical culture, attending to ...
News / BY: David R. Richardson, MD November 2009
... Paperback, 368 pages. $29.95. I recently read A Doctor’s Notes: Taken from both sides of the bedsheets, by Dr Tom ... to fit everything in. Lastly, he poignantly shares his own health struggles, which eventually led to his retirement. ... are many of us. —DRR News Book review: A Doctor’s Notes: Taken from both sides of the bedsheets. ...
Letters / BY: H. Davis, MD, June 2008
... of the ACRM propose the definition of mTBI, the World Health Organization notes no consensus with regard to the definition of mTBI. ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: J.L. Benedet, MD, FRCS, April 2007
... was a prominent feature on these trips. He provided notes and short lectures on a variety of topics such as the ... in all manner of things. Enjoy your retirement in good health with Melanie and your family at what you have ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Perry Kendall, OBC, MBBS, MSc, FRCPC December 2007
... I started what would become a lifetime career in public health, in the ear­ly 1970s, at Vancouver’s Pine Street ... media and in the public’s mind with the idea of public health. Francis John Blatherwick has de­fined public health ... to his four children, a “real doctor.” Wikipedia also notes that he is a “scrappy” hockey player. I have known ...
News / BY: James A. Wilson, MD January/February 2006
... program. This includes developing a basic and emergency health care program for the games and the doping control ... a school-based pilot project to deal with mental health issues affecting youth. He is a recipient of the CMA ... being the most famous). However, in the same breath she notes that the pendulum may have swung a little too far in ...
Letters / BY: Warren Bell, MD, CM, CCFP, FCFP(LM) July/August 2006
... constitute only one approach to restoring well-being and health. Our patients are undertaking a host of preventive ... CAM in droves; their choices are in fact changing the health system. They seek physicians who support a truly ... add, supported by “an educational grant from Pfizer”), notes sadly that despite a “five-year target to reduce ...
Letters / BY: Anthony Kenyon, MB April 2005
... care in the  BCMJ (2004;9:441)  in which Dr J.R. Dale notes that walk-in clinics are often more challenging to work ... card. It has the vital statistics of the patient and a health care number. A photograph is being added to avoid ... is paid within 48 hours. It is the intention of the French health care services to develop this carte vitale into ...
Letters / BY: James E Parker, MB March 2003
... a certain specific lethal infectious disease locally. One notes that this particular disease is conspicuous by its ... be that someone is “asleep at the helm” down at Public Health? —James E. Parker, MB Abbotsford Letters Re: ...
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