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BC Centre for Disease Control, COVID-19 / BY: Naomi Dove, MD, MPH, FRCPC November 2020
... health care system, and protect high-risk populations.[ 1 , 2 ] School closure is an intervention for influenza ...
MDs To Be, COVID-19 / BY: Shayda A. Swann, BSc November 2020
... First Nations communities. Int J Indigenous Health 2004;1:80-95. 10 tips for engaging community members Allocate time ...
Obituaries / BY: Cathy Clelland, MD November 2020
... Doctors’ Hospital on Wednesday, 26 August 2020, at 1:30 a.m. with her family by her side. Born 3 August 1963 in ...
Specialist Services Committee / BY: Ian Waters, MD November 2020
... children, called Tiers of Cystic Fibrosis Service in BC.[ 1 ] The framework we wrote features the first made-in-Canada ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sympascho Young, MD December 2020
... spp., which are transmitted by the Ixodes spp. tick.[ 1 ] In Canada, the number of reported cases of Lyme disease ... progression of Lyme disease occurs in three stages: Stage 1: Following the tick bite, there is a 3- to 32-day ... erythema migrans (EM), manifests at the site of the bite.[ 1 ] EM typically appears as a red annular skin lesion with a ...
News December 2020
... the pandemic. Two new temporary fees are available from 1 October 2020 to 30 April 2021. Detailed information is ...
News December 2020
... and desired by both the patient and physician. Effective 1 November 2020, two new fees are available to bill for ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Kelsey D.M. Kozoriz, MSc, MD, CCFP December 2020
... and hunger back into the international spotlight.[ 1 ] After 2 decades of improvements, the rate of global ... do a simple calculation of the money they’ve spent over 1 week on take-out, coffees, fast food, and grocery store ... ( www.healthlinkbc.ca/dietitian-services ) through the 8-1-1 service. Household food insecurity affects 12% of ...
Premise / BY: H.M.K. McGillivray, BSc December 2020
... can be attributed in part to us simply living longer.[ 1 ] However, the increased use of diagnostic technology is ... single comparable CT scan now takes less than one-third of 1 second, meaning images can be produced 3000 times faster.[ ... biopharmaceutical manufacturer Endocyte Inc. for US$2.1 billion in order to acquire the rights to market PSMA-617, ...
MDs To Be / BY: Anita Weng, BSc December 2020
... more than 14 700 deaths due to opioid-related overdose.[ 1 ] In British Columbia, fentanyl or its analogues are ... patients who primarily attended in-person appointments at 1 year of the study (50% versus 39%).[ 16 ] The authors ...