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News, COVID-19 July/August 2021
... bloodstream. Oxygen levels below 95% are found among people with pneumonia—another symptom of a severe COVID-19 ...
News July/August 2021
... patient decision aid now being used throughout BC to help people who have previously had a C-section make ... navigating their next pregnancy and birth. Over 75% of people in BC who have had a C-section are good candidates for ... to start discussing options with their care team. People want to learn about their options for their next birth ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Stephanie Gin, RN, MPH July/August 2021
... that BC is on track to achieve elimination by 2030, 28 607 people living with HCV in BC remain untreated.[ 1 ] Many have ... of social and economic marginalization. Around 17% of people testing antibody positive in BC between 1990 and 2018 ... in Canada to recommend one-time birth cohort screening for people born between 1945 and 1965. As this birth cohort ...
Letters / BY: Mandana Kaviani, MD September 2021
... the last week of June claimed the lives of more than 300 people. Based on a report from the Asthma and Allergy ...
Letters / BY: Roger Purnell, MBChB, FRCSC September 2021
... time. These patients will join the ever-ballooning pool of people waiting for unnecessary musculoskeletal MRIs. It also ...
Obituaries / BY: Patrick Fay, MD September 2021
... feeling being that in order to understand a country or a people you had to understand the language. While she was a ...
Obituaries / BY: Paul Wright, MD September 2021
... Lions Gate Hospital in North Vancouver. Legacies are about people, and Pat created legacies. He was a leader and an ...
President's Comment / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD September 2021
... What you want. We need to consider, ask, and learn how people want to be treated. In the same way that I cannot tell ... to describe as it can mean different things to different people, cultures, and generations. I describe it as a pattern of certain behaviors: honorable people keep their word, maintain confidences, tell the truth, ...
News / BY: Erin Connors September 2021
... cesarean section. These types of claims are available for people who are insured through the government-funded ...
News September 2021
... death in North America. While most people affected will fully recover, new research from ... becoming dangerously ill or dying due to the infection are people ages 65 and older who take antibiotics, along with individuals with a prior C. diff infection and people who are hospitalized or living in long-term care ...