News
March 2020
... with about half switching to morning medication use for 7 months. Researchers measured the effectiveness of the drug ...
Beyond Medicine /
BY: E.M. Wong, MD, CCFP, FCFP
March 2020
... Services is 17,[ 6 ] but there is no maximum age.[ 6 , 7 ] Canada’s oldest donor, a 95-year-old woman from Port ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Kevin E. Liang, MD, CCFP
March 2020
... produces 48% of all foods consumed in the province,[ 7 ] flooding and saltwater intrusion pose serious food ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Matthew Boroditsky, BHSc
March 2020
... by the British Columbia ONTRAC adult transition program.[ 7 ] Additionally, 23% of patients were older than 19 years ... at BCCH each year of the study and followed for 7 years. The PopDataBC platform was not able to yield a ... at five tertiary care programs and are followed for 7 years. Since 2009, chromosomal microarray analysis has been ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Antonia Hyman, MSc
April 2020
... authorities in 2015[ 6 ] and by Doctors of BC in 2019.[ 7 , 8 ] The declaration commits health care professionals and ...
Beyond Medicine /
BY: David A. Obert, MD, MPP
April 2020
... and air search and rescue mission coordinators work 24/7 answering a variety of calls from the public, the Canadian ... forced to pick up extra shifts to keep the JRCC staffed 24/7/365. Additionally, as the older, experienced search and ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: J. Connell, BSc, MPH
April 2020
... for assessing care in rheumatology outpatient clinics.[ 7 ] Patients were asked to consider 45 statements and use a ... 2009 and 30.4 patients per week in 2016, an increase of 74.7% (13 patients per rheumatologist per week) [ Figure 1 ]. ... 2009 and 30.4 patients per week in 2016, an increase of 74.7% (13 patients per rheumatologist per week). When encounters ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: T. Justin Dhinsa, BSc
May 2020
... The pain is often first noticed after trauma to the site.[ 7 ] A bone sarcoma patient’s presentation will frequently ... disease, meniscal lesions, and other benign pathologies.[ 7 ] The obscure nature of bone sarcomas can result in ... are based on research in Canada or the United States.[ 7 , 13-18 ] A quality improvement observational study of ...
Obituaries /
BY: Ian A. MacDonald, MD, FRCPC
May 2020
... member of the medical community. He was available 24/7 to carry out a wide variety of surgical procedures, ...
Letters /
BY: Kendall Ho, MD, FRCPC
May 2020
... readers to join us in the conversation in Vancouver on 7 November 2020 for the second TEC Vancouver conference. ...