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Council on Health Promotion / BY: JoyAnne Krupa, MD March 2020
... vessel function and performance outcomes were similar.[ 1 ] Dr Koehle has also examined the physiological effects ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Kevin E. Liang, MD, CCFP March 2020
... in Metro Vancouver and southern Vancouver Island.[ 1 ] Along the north coast, many settlements in Haida Gwaii, ... as well as Kitimat and Prince Rupert, are near sea level.[ 1 ] Displacement Under current provincial estimations, sea ... around BC are projected to rise by 0.5 metre by 2050, and 1.0 metre by 2100, making many low-lying lands vulnerable to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hilary Drake, BSc March 2020
... officer (MHO) to report a cluster of respiratory illness.[ 1 ] A 56-year-old male had been admitted to hospital with ... rate: 75%). The team interviewed 11 of the 12 players; 1 player was out of the country and could not be reached. Of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Matthew Boroditsky, BHSc March 2020
... hypoparathyroidism, and cardiac outflow tract anomalies.[ 1 , 2 ] DiGeorge syndrome was later grouped with other ... Opitz G/BBB syndrome, and Cayler cardiofacial syndrome).[ 1 , 2 ] With the advent of cytogenetic testing in the 1980s ... common microdeletion syndrome with a prevalence of roughly 1 in 3000 to 1 in 6000 live births.[ 3 ] Affected individuals ...
Letters / BY: Nilanga Aki Bandara, BSc April 2020
... future tobacco control policies in Canada and globally.[ 1-3 ] E-cigarettes should carry health warnings like ...
Letters / BY: Marisa Ponzo, MD-PhD, FRCPC April 2020
The health burden of gout continues to rise in Canada.[ 1 ] Allopurinol, a common urate-lowering medication used to ...
Editorials, COVID-19 / BY: David J. Esler, MD, CCFP(EM) April 2020
... had lived through the potato famine, which dispatched some 1 million souls in Ireland; World War I, which claimed 10 ... December 2019, claiming 3300 lives—0.00024% of China’s 1. 4 billion citizens—then quickly died out in the ...
BC Centre for Disease Control, COVID-19 / BY: Alexis Crabtree, MD, MPH, PhD, CCFP, FRCPC April 2020
... outside this area the case fatality rate is well below 1%. These estimates are likely to be refined by the time this ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Derek C. Chang, MD April 2020
... such as Nurses and Nurse Practitioners of BC,[ 1 ] Moms Stop the Harm,[ 2 ] the Canadian Association of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Antonia Hyman, MSc April 2020
... of stereotypes and racist attitudes all play a part.[ 1 , 2 ] One outcome of colonization is a lack of emphasis on ... medicine and practices within Indigenous communities.[ 1 ] Health policy frameworks and strategic documents, ... patients.[ 2-5 ] Specifically, UNDRIP article 24.1 states: Indigenous peoples have the right to their ...