Search

News July/August 2020
... poisonous mushroom, Amanita phalloides , is growing in BC” [ BCMJ 2019;61:20-24 ]. Dr Moor-Smith wrote the article ... Li, a drug and poison information pharmacist at the BC Drug and Poison Information Centre, and Dr Omar Ahmad, a physician with Island Health, ...
News, COVID-19 July/August 2020
The BC Cancer Breast Screening Program resumed screening mammography services in select screening centre sites in June. The introduction of screening ...
News, COVID-19 July/August 2020
BC-based Patriot One Technologies and its subsidiary, Xtract ... by the UBC Community Health and Wellbeing Cloud Innovation Centre. Additional support for the project is being provided ...
BC Centre for Disease Control, COVID-19 / BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC July/August 2020
... Columbia. The emergence of COVID-19 is concerning in BC, where an ongoing public health emergency was declared in ... 5000 illicit drug toxicity deaths have been reported in BC.[ 1 ] COVID-19 disproportionately affects people who use ... MPH Epidemiologist for the Overdose Emergency Response Centre, Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions and BCCDC BC ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jan Klimas, MSc, PhD September 2020
... addicted to opioids (oral communication, Bohdan Nosyk, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, 1 August 2018) as a result ... numbers reporting misuse and disorders.[ 3 ] The BC Centre on Substance Use recently published a systematic ...
News September 2020
... Medicine Clinician Support Line, supported by the BC Centre on Substance Use, provides telephone consultation to ...
MDs To Be, COVID-19 / BY: Leilynaz Malekafzali, BSc September 2020
... 2 and 14 days.[ 1 ] The symptoms of COVID-19 listed by the BC Centre for Disease Control and the World Health Organization ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Armon Molavi, MD October 2020
... 33 ] Prior to the 2019 release of the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU) Provincial Guideline for the ... outpatient management of alcohol withdrawal. The previous BC guidelines outlined an approach for identifying and ... 33 ] The pharmacological treatment listed in the previous BC guidelines involves using diazepam for acute withdrawal ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Sonny Thiara, MD October 2020
... ventilation.[ 6 ] The experience with COVID-19 in BC has been different than in other jurisdictions. Although BC has approximately 13.4% of the Canadian population,[ 7 ] ... 7 March 2020, the first two cases at the Lynn Valley Care Centre in North Vancouver were reported.[ 11 ] One resident ...
News October 2020
Children across BC with extraordinary health needs, requiring complex care, ... soon have access to a children’s complex care transition centre in Vancouver. Operated by the BC Children’s Hospital, the facility will fill gaps in ...