MDs To Be, COVID-19 /
BY: Leilynaz Malekafzali, BSc
September 2020
... 2 and 14 days.[ 1 ] The symptoms of COVID-19 listed by the BC Centre for Disease Control and the World Health ...
Council on Health Promotion, COVID-19 /
BY: Tommy Gerschman, MD, FRCPC, MSc
September 2020
... to return. Patients and families can be referred to BC’s Active & Safe Central website ( www.activesafe.ca ), ... help build back strength lost during inactivity.[ 4 ] In BC, viaSport has been given the mandate to help coordinate ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Li Rita Zhang, MPH
September 2020
... into screening service use by specific subpopulations in BC, we applied an equity lens to investigate breast cancer screening participation rates among BC women of screening age, examining the data for various ... programs, the BCCDC’s Population and Public Health, and BC Cancer examined the 30-month breast cancer screening ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Armon Molavi, MD
October 2020
... outpatient management of alcohol withdrawal. The previous BC guidelines outlined an approach for identifying and ... 33 ] The pharmacological treatment listed in the previous BC guidelines involves using diazepam for acute withdrawal ... as well as Ms Emily Wagner and Ms Amanda Giesler from the BC Centre on Substance Use for their generous help in ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 /
BY: Sonny Thiara, MD
October 2020
... ventilation.[ 6 ] The experience with COVID-19 in BC has been different than in other jurisdictions. Although BC has approximately 13.4% of the Canadian population,[ 7 ] ... COVID-19 deaths.[ 8 ] However, by 11 July 2020, BC had recorded 2.8% (n = 3053) of Canada’s COVID-19 cases ...
Obituaries /
BY: Douglas J. Courtemanche, MD, MS, FRCSC
October 2020
... in convincing government to enact seatbelt legislation in BC. Because of these efforts, he was made an Office Brother ...
Obituaries /
BY: Susan Ketchen
October 2020
... on 31 October 1927 and died on 31 July 2020 in Courtenay, BC, on the hobby farm he dubbed Guineacres. At age 5, Michael ... General Hospital in Comox and consultant psychiatrist to BC Mental Health Services in the Comox Valley and north ... charity or the Red Cross. —Susan Ketchen Courtenay, BC Obituaries Dr Michael Entwisle, 1927–2020 ...
News, COVID-19
October 2020
Doctors with community offices in BC have invested time and expense to re-open their practices ... COVID-19 COVID-19 office safety plan support grant for BC’s community physicians ...
News
October 2020
Children across BC with extraordinary health needs, requiring complex care, ... care transition centre in Vancouver. Operated by the BC Children’s Hospital, the facility will fill gaps in ... network will extend the centre’s reach to every area of BC and will also include training and support for caregivers ...
News
October 2020
... and Wellness Collaborative for Rural and First Nations BC. For more information visit https://rccbc.ca/rtvs . News ...