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Letters / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP November 2020
... treatments and over 70% of people with advanced cancer.[ 2 ] Opioids remain the treatment of choice for moderate to ...
Letters / BY: Nilanga Aki Bandara, BSc November 2020
... cultural values and experiences.[ 1 ] Recent research[ 2 ] highlights the enormous benefits of patient-physician ... the newborn mortality rate can be reduced by half.[ 2 ] While creating greater support for Black students to ...
Premise, COVID-19 / BY: Jan Hajek, MD November 2020
... prohibiting some aspects of the wild animal industry.[ 2 ] Although many Canadians have been quick to call attention ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Abigail Steinberg, MD November 2020
... presentation but pulmonary infection cannot be excluded.[ 2 ] The BC Centre for Disease Control has coordinated ...
BC Centre for Disease Control, COVID-19 / BY: Naomi Dove, MD, MPH, FRCPC November 2020
... care system, and protect high-risk populations.[ 1 , 2 ] School closure is an intervention for influenza outbreaks ... susceptibility and transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in children differ from influenza. Children are less susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 than adults. As of 24 September, children under 19 years ...
News, COVID-19 November 2020
... protection against the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. Dr Horacio Bach and his team hope a temporary ...
Specialist Services Committee / BY: Ian Waters, MD November 2020
... features the first made-in-Canada CF Standards of Care[ 2 ] and identifies who is responsible for delivering every ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sympascho Young, MD December 2020
... dramatically increased from 144 in 2009 to 1487 in 2018.[ 2 ] Most of this increase occurred in Eastern Canada: 88% of ... cases in 2018 were from Ontario, Quebec, and Nova Scotia.[ 2 ] In BC, the trend is reversed: the number of reported ... from a peak of 40 (0.8 per 100 000) in 2016 to 9 (0.2 per 100 000) in 2018.[ 3 ] Nonetheless, risk modeling ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Kelsey D.M. Kozoriz, MSc, MD, CCFP December 2020
... hunger back into the international spotlight.[ 1 ] After 2 decades of improvements, the rate of global hunger began ... million people worldwide struggled with chronic hunger.[ 2 ] Devastatingly, 2020 will see even more people struggle to ... the COVID-19 pandemic compound the global hunger crisis.[ 2 ] Nearly 9% of the world’s population has insufficient ...
Premise / BY: H.M.K. McGillivray, BSc December 2020
... of the major cancers: prostate, breast, and colorectal.[ 2 ] Screening makes it possible to detect and treat cancers ... early, increasing the chances of a good prognosis.[ 2 ] However, screening invariably leads to more cancer ... for cancer diagnoses and treatment in Canada rose from $2.9 billion in 2005 to $7.5 billion in 2012.[ 9 ] Additional ...