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News / BY: Jeremy Hunka September 2019
... just a single neurosurgeon serving approximately 5 million people. Over the past 17 years, KBNF has transported more ...
News January/February 2019
... include: Life expectancy among Status First Nations people improved between 2005 and 2015, but the life ... groups, but the rate of increase for First Nations people declined, resulting in an overall decrease in the ... jointly monitor the health and well-being of First Nations people in BC for the next 10 years with an expanded suite of ...
News June 2019
... which is then saved, shared, or sold for future use. While people know not to share needles, some use their own needle ...
News December 2019
... (death cap): Death cap mushrooms are believed to kill more people worldwide than any other mushroom. Death caps are ...
News April 2019
... (STI) testing removes some of the barriers that prevent people from getting tested while providing key information ... online sexual health service in BC and is available to people living in Metro Vancouver and, in partnership with ... have been completed since it launched in 2014, and 43% of people have used it for testing more than once. While online ...
News October 2019
... weren’t able to analyze the participation of Indigenous people in trials because there were only 13 patients reported ... population to ensure the drugs are effective in all people. News Lack of racial diversity in cancer drug trials ...
News January/February 2019
... the University of Waterloo. Researchers found that even if people weren’t good at it, drawing, as a method to help ... of a series of studies, the researchers asked both young people and older adults to do a variety of memory-encoding ... adults. Retention of new information typically declines as people age due to deterioration of critical brain structures ...
News December 2019
The BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) is advising people who use drugs to get trained in overdose response and ... they choose to consume, after new research revealed that people who smoke or snort drugs are half as likely to carry ... The warning stems from results of a 2018 survey of people who use drugs in BC and research published recently in ...
News April 2019
... of treatment, management of sepsis for the 30 million people who develop it each year relies on infection control ...
News / BY: Shaila Jiwa, RN, BScN, MScPPH June 2018
... public health threat.[ 1 ] In 2016, about 10 million people fell ill with TB, and about 1.7 million died worldwide ... killer globally and the leading killer of people living with HIV.[ 3 ]  Approximately one-quarter of ... population has latent (or dormant) TB, which means that people have been infected with the TB bacteria but the ...