Premise /
BY: Mark Elliott, MD, FRCPC
March 2020
... able to guess what another person is thinking at about 5 months of age, according to child psychology. But what ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: JoyAnne Krupa, MD
March 2020
... despite opening up the airways to more emissions.[ 5 ] Our health is being impacted by climate change and ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Kevin E. Liang, MD, CCFP
March 2020
... In British Columbia, 80% of the population lives within 5 km of the coast, with the majority concentrated in Metro ... sea levels around BC are projected to rise by 0.5 metre by 2050, and 1.0 metre by 2100, making many low-lying ... a 1-in-500-year storm surge even at today’s sea level.[ 5 ] Food security Sea levels are predicted to rise by up to ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Hilary Drake, BSc
March 2020
... and hemoptysis (36%). Of the 11 individuals interviewed, 5 (45%) sought medical care and 4 (36%) obtained chest X-rays ... with the ice resurfacing machine operating for about 3.5 hours. A gasoline-powered ice edging machine was also used ... dioxide (NO 2 ), and ultrafine/fine particulate matter.[ 3-5 ] Studies comparing outside air with air inside arenas that ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Matthew Boroditsky, BHSc
March 2020
... disorders,[ 4 ] and autism spectrum disorder (ASD).[ 5 ] Although the majority of individuals with this syndrome ...
Letters /
BY: Nilanga Aki Bandara, BSc
April 2020
... likely for them to make and sustain behavioral change.[ 5 ] Developing clinical guidelines incorporating the current ...
Letters /
BY: Marisa Ponzo, MD-PhD, FRCPC
April 2020
... to eliminate the risk of SCARs in this population.[ 4 , 5 ] Unfortunately, HLA-B*58:01 genotype testing is ...
Editorials, COVID-19 /
BY: David J. Esler, MD, CCFP(EM)
April 2020
... peak. While the mortality of both pathogens is likely 2.5% (this will never be known with any certainty), they target ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Derek C. Chang, MD
April 2020
... for safe supply, and a proposed model for implementation.[ 5 ] I can think of a particular patient whose story ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Antonia Hyman, MSc
April 2020
... improved services and support for Indigenous patients.[ 2-5 ] Specifically, UNDRIP article 24.1 states: Indigenous ... any discrimination, to all social and health services.[ 5 ] In November 2019 British Columbia was the first province ...