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News December 2019
... be used to screen for developmental differences and health problems in children. The study was led by researchers ... their actual age, the clock can point to differences in health, including age-related diseases and early mortality. ...
President's Comment / BY: Kathleen Ross, MD December 2019
... This courage enables them to lead the changes our health care system needs to be both comprehensive and ... values as physicians, and we understand the goals of our health care system, it makes it easier to work as a team ... impact on relationships with our governing bodies, allied health, and public not-for-profits in improving on-the-ground ...
Specialist Services Committee / BY: Sam Bugis, MD December 2019
Meaningful physician engagement is essential to a health care organization’s ability to deliver high-quality, ... patient care. But for the past 2 decades—as BC’s health authorities were regionalized and doctors in hospitals ... staff associations (MSAs) have partnered with their health authorities to build a new foundation for ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Sarah Munro, PhD December 2019
... feeding choices in a nonjudgmental way can support the health of infants and may help increase breastfeeding rates by improving the therapeutic relationship with health care professionals. While promotion of exclusive ... intentioned and based on evidence that it confers more health benefits for parents and infants compared to formula,[ ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Alana Godin December 2019
The GPSC recognizes that doctors and health care team members invest significant time to ensure ... for compensation for QI activities include MOAs, allied health providers in private practice, and allied health providers employed by a GP practice. Team members who ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Michael R. Lyon, MD, ABOM December 2019
... document that has played a central role in informing what health professionals, the media, and the government tell ... to prevent nutritional deficiencies and improve the health of Canadians. The concept of food groups was ... and widely adopted, it was also increasingly criticized by health professionals and nutritional scientists who expressed ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Geetha Raghukumar, MBBS, DLSHTM, MSc, CIC, CCFP, FRCPC December 2019
... endemic for canine-mediated rabies. While transmission to health care workers caring for a patient infected with rabies ... disease under the Canada Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) Health of Animals Act.[ 1 ] Causes Rabies is a rare zoonotic ... by a booster dose in the event of exposure.[ 2 , 6 ] For health care workers, routine precautions, including wearing ...
MDs To Be / BY: Yue Bo Yang, BSc December 2019
... President Barack Obama launched the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us campaign in 2015, mandating the ... similar initiatives. The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) predicts 60 million genomes will be sequenced ... world’s population still deplete of basic resources and health care, genomics and precision medicine would primarily ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Matthew Mo Kin Kwok, MD, CCFP(EM), FCFP December 2019
... with federal legislation, N 2 O is classified by Health Canada as an “ethical” product that “does not ... acute and chronic nitrous oxide use. Reporting limitations Health care providers play an important role in reporting ... for making whipped cream, the appropriate authority is Health Canada Consumer Products and Cosmetics. A member of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Colin Mar, MD, FRCPC December 2019
... mandates the reporting of breast density to the referring health care provider and screening participant,[ 8 ] and ...