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Letters /
BY: Nilanga Aki Bandara, BSc
November 2020
... face when applying to medical school. Moreover, evidence[ 5 ] from examining the bias of medical school admissions ... evaluated in a holistic manner free from negative biases,[ 5 ] as evaluators are composed of Black community members and ...
Premise, COVID-19 /
BY: Jan Hajek, MD
November 2020
... year and to compensate farmers to help them transition.[ 5 ] Over the last few years, many countries, ranging from the ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Abigail Steinberg, MD
November 2020
... E acetate was detected in both broncho-alveolar lavage[ 5 ] (BAL) and vaping products[ 6 ] used by some US cases. In ...
BC Centre for Disease Control, COVID-19 /
BY: Naomi Dove, MD, MPH, FRCPC
November 2020
... usually have no or mild symptoms and mortality is rare.[ 5 ] Children also do not tend to spread SARS-CoV-2 widely, ... declined dramatically during the pandemic, with only 5% of Canadian children meeting 24-hour guidelines for ...
Obituaries /
BY: Dina Collins
November 2020
... born in Berlin, Germany, on 15 January 1928, and at age 5 left Germany with her parents to begin a new life in ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Sympascho Young, MD
December 2020
... (AV) node, as evidenced by autopsy findings.[ 5 ] The severity of conduction abnormalities is correlated ... rare manifestation, with reported prevalence of 1.5% to 10.0% in the United States and 0.3% to 4.0% in Europe ... of Lyme carditis cases) than in the United States (2% to 5% of Lyme carditis cases), presents with signs and symptoms ...
Editorials /
BY: David J. Esler, MD, CCFP(EM)
December 2020
... health care was recently expressed in the Globe and Mail (5 October 2020) by Dr Danyaal Raza, chair of Canadian Doctors ... it. While our provincial government recently announced $78.5 million to fund 22 primary health care networks in 13 ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Kelsey D.M. Kozoriz, MSc, MD, CCFP
December 2020
... cost of a healthy diet has been estimated to be at least 5 times more expensive than one that is made up primarily of ... nutritional and diet supports for some patients.[ 5 ] HealthLink BC also offers telephone and email support ...
Premise /
BY: H.M.K. McGillivray, BSc
December 2020
... new technologies, versus the related financial burden.[ 3-5 ] This is a moving target as each effort to contain ... and early detection. This shows up in data (e.g., on the 5-year survival rate), which has climbed for nearly all ... outcomes, such as pancreatic cancer, for which the 5-year survival rate has almost tripled since 1975.[ 6 ] ...