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Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Vivian W.L. Tsang, MD, MGC April 2023
... increase.[ 3 , 4 ] Between January and December 2021, 7560 people died from opioid-related toxicity in Canada.[ 5 ] Gaps ... care affect youth Mental health concerns affect young people disproportionally. In BC, one in four young people live with a mental health or substance use disorder ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Elizabeth Purssell, MD, MSc September 2022
... in a health authority with a catchment area of 1.9 million people or more. Royal Columbian Hospital sees approximately ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Rahana Harjee, MD, FRCSC April 2022
... pre- and mid-pandemic. These results are reassuring to people seeking fertility treatment, many of whom might ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Patrick Ho Pun Wong, MD, FRCPC June 2022
... B has a worldwide prevalence of more than 250 million people.[ 2 ] Areas with high endemicity include Asia, Africa, ... and parts of South America. In Canada, up to 480 000 people may be infected.[ 3 , 4 ] The population groups with ... include immigrants from endemic countries, Indigenous people, and people who inject drugs.[ 4 ] In BC, local ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mira Keyes, MD, FRCPC September 2022
... has become a popular umbrella term for whatever distresses people in their work.[ 26 ] Recently published studies ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM June 2022
... population ranged from 49.7 to 121.3 in 2019,[ 18 ] most people with such a rash will have Lyme disease. However, in ... is warranted. Basic laboratory testing, as recommended for people with chronic fatigue, includes a complete blood count ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Jason Wong, MD, MPH, CCFP, FRCPC December 2022
... screened for syphilis at 28–32 weeks of pregnancy.[ 5 ] People delivering a stillborn infant after 20 weeks’ ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Haile Zapata-Dixon June 2022
... immigration to Canada reached a record high of 436 689 people, which represented 80% of Canada’s total population ... pediatric patient was hospitalized with melioidosis. Young people aged 16 to 18 years were more commonly diagnosed with ...
Beyond Medicine, COVID-19 / BY: Jocelyn Y. Wong October 2022
... generating feelings of hesitancy among pregnant people and people who plan to conceive. Recently, vaccine clinical ... A Canada-wide study, CANCOVID-Preg, reported that pregnant people with COVID-19 infection have a stillbirth rate of ...
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 ...