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BC Centre for Disease Control, COVID-19 / BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC July/August 2020
... severity of outcome of novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infection, and drug overdose risk. How are people who use ... and single-room occupancy hotels can exacerbate SARS-CoV-2 transmission risk, as has been seen in Toronto where more than 300 cases were identified in shelters.[ 2 ] Furthermore, people who use substances are ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Lorne David Porayko, MD, FRCPC, CIM July/August 2020
... taught my family the first of many lessons. Over the past 2 decades, David and I have been motivated students of the ...
Back Page, COVID-19 / BY: Abe Zacharias, MD, FRCPC July/August 2020
... perfectly well, and besides, I’m starting college in 2 months. You can’t do this to me!” I quickly learned ... “Six months, eh. Don’t bet on it. You’ll be here for 2 years at least. I’m in for the third time. My last ... My cure, via triple therapy, would eventually take 2 years. My father, who was gaunt and quite underweight in ...
Premise / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC July/August 2020
... been vastly underrepresented in clinical trials.[ 2 ] Black women even more so. In 2019, Nnorom and colleagues ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jan Klimas, MSc, PhD September 2020
... Canadian data on prescription opioid use are dated,[ 1 , 2 ] but recent US data suggest that more than one-third of US ... risk factors were analyzed.[ 19-22 ] They included 2 888 346 patients and 4470 cases that met the authors’ ... of OUD in the context of pain care is estimated to be 2.8% (range 0.10% to 34.0%).[ 4 ] Based on this incidence ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Kristopher T. Kang, MD September 2020
... and public health emergencies such as pandemics.[ 1 , 2 ] Despite this, their needs are often overlooked.[ 3 ] ... Emerging data from the ongoing pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2, the causal agent of the acute respiratory distress ...
Obituaries / BY: Ann Skidmore, MBChB, FRCPC September 2020
... several London hospitals, Angus completed his compulsory 2 years of national service as a first lieutenant in the ...
Obituaries / BY: Mark Elliott, MD, FRCPC September 2020
Dr Ali Bouaziz died quite suddenly but not unexpectedly on 2 March 2020, just a few weeks shy of his 90th year, in his ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC September 2020
... are just a few of the most striking disparities.[ 1 , 2 ] The United Nations Human Development Index includes three ...
President's Comment, COVID-19 / BY: Kathleen Ross, MD September 2020
... to reflect on our profession’s response to SARS-CoV-2 to date in BC without coming across the concept of ... since modified the model to include coping and control.[ 2 ] While we recognize the importance of these areas in the ... crisis, and those to come. At the end of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, I hope to reflect positively on the shared ...