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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Sarah Munro, PhD December 2019
... benefits for parents and infants compared to formula,[ 2 ] a family’s context and choices are sometimes ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Michael R. Lyon, MD, ABOM December 2019
... it “Canada’s Food Guide to Unhealthy Eating.”[ 2 ] In the years leading up to the 2019 edition, influential ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Geetha Raghukumar, MBBS, DLSHTM, MSc, CIC, CCFP, FRCPC December 2019
... bites provide the greatest risk of rabies transmission.[ 2-5 ] In BC, bats are the only known reservoirs for the rabies virus.[ 2 ] The rabies virus is carried in the saliva and neural ... be as short as a few days to as long as several years.[ 2 ] After an initial period of nonspecific symptoms such as ...
MDs To Be / BY: Yue Bo Yang, BSc December 2019
... international collaborative effort costing US$3 billion.[ 2 ] Today, it can be completed for US$1000 in under 24 hours[ ... Huntington disease or a high index of suspicion for BRCA1/2 mutations. Otherwise, patients may access fee-based ... 8 ] In effect, similar to how the identification of BRCA1/2 mutation carriers led to prophylactic mastectomy and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Matthew Mo Kin Kwok, MD, CCFP(EM), FCFP December 2019
Nitrous oxide (N 2 O), commonly known as “laughing gas,”[ 1 ] has ... purposes such as anesthesia, analgesia, and sedation.[ 2 ] It is also available as a consumer product in canisters ... a self-report survey of recreational drug use, suggest N 2 O is being misused by those seeking the dissociative state ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Colin Mar, MD, FRCPC December 2019
... with increasing age and varies by ethnic group.[ 1 , 2 ] Radiologists of the BC Cancer Breast Screening Program ... of BI-RADS density categories assigned (Objective 2). The interval of 18 to 30 months between screening rounds ... in participants recommended for biennial screening. Sample 2 data included mammograms performed from 2011 to 2015 [ ...
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