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News / BY: Arun K. Garg, PhD, MD March 2019
... vision was global engagement and building links between people through health care. The conference started with ...
News December 2019
... (death cap): Death cap mushrooms are believed to kill more people worldwide than any other mushroom. Death caps are ...
News May 2019
... Dr Emily Krauss, who specializes in nerve transfers for people with spinal cord injury. He approached Dr Daniel ...
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 March 2019
... School of Nursing, Kelowna, has determined that people diagnosed with terminal cancer—who have hope, ... each year, 8.2 million cancer deaths, and 32.6 million people living with cancer. Historically, researchers have ... participants’ awareness of dying, which differed from people living with chronic illness, and was a unique aspect ...
News January/February 2019
... and maintenance of vitamin D serum levels to help people affected by multiple sclerosis. Research has shown a ... provide information for at-risk populations as well as people diagnosed with MS. The document also highlights ... with 11 Canadians diagnosed with the disease every day. People with biological family members who have MS are at ...
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 May 2019
... individuals aged 40 years or older, heterosexuals, people living in remote areas, and people who had ever injected drugs were more likely to have ...
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 ...
Letters / BY: Reza Afshari, MD, MPH, PhD July/August 2019
... with the issue. A picture is worth a thousand words! People may forget the text but are more likely to remember ...