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WorkSafeBC /
BY: Sami Youakim, MD, MSc, FRCP
April 2019
... carbon monoxide (CO) levels (see Box). CO 2 is emitted by people working in the office building. An excessive ... an inadequate amount of fresh air for the number of people in the space. Elevated levels of CO 2 commonly ...
News /
BY: Arlaina Waisman, RD
July/August 2019
... free, comprehensive educational classes aimed at helping people self-manage their osteoarthritis. The interactive, ... Please note that this program services VCH residents and people from other health authorities who have a VCH surgeon. ...
News
March 2019
A new project aimed at supporting people transitioning back to their communities when they are ... by the BC Coroners Service in 2018. Of those, 10% (333 people) died within their first month of release from a ... throughout BC aim to address this problem by helping people with opioid-use disorders access treatment in their ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: David M. Patrick, MD, FRCPC, MHSc
November 2019
... can aid decisions on subsequent antibiotic therapy. Many people with minor reactions who receive the same agent years ...
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
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 ...
Premise /
BY: James M. Wright, MD, PhD, FRCPC
April 2019
... should not be surprising if health care professionals and people with type 2 diabetes are confused or frustrated by the ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews /
BY: David R. Richardson, MD
July/August 2019
... Shannon the day of her inauguration. Speaking of young people, what are the challenges that medical students and ... later. That route’s a lot more difficult now, and people decide what they want to do early on, by the end of ... tone for the family practice being patient-centred, where people come, they feel welcome, they feel like their needs ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Sofia R. Bartlett, PhD
March 2019
... for a particular disease, and the number or portion of people progressing through each stage, thereby helping to ... BC demonstrates continued gaps in treatment uptake among people with a history of injection drug use.[ 4 ] Curing hepatitis C virus among people who inject drugs can prevent transmission to others, ...