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Obituaries / BY: Mary Conley, MD June 2022
... life to the fullest. That’s what she wanted. Gail did a 2-year residency in New Zealand and loved the country so much ...
News June 2022
... to be valid 19 times out of 20, within a margin of +/− 2.50%. Participants were given the opportunity to enter an ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Clare McGinness, MD, MRCGP June 2022
... residency at the University of British Columbia. The year-2 family medicine residents complete a 1- to 4-day rotation ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: BCCDC Overdose Drivers Knowledge Translation Group June 2022
... and safer supply as key measures to save lives.[ 2 ] Promoting family well-being is at the heart of overdose ... prevention. A 10% increase in overdose deaths parallels a 2% increase in child maltreatment and a 4% increase in child ...
Premise / BY: Renee Fernandez, MD, CCFP June 2022
... we have an opportunity for that now. Changes over the last 2 years have resulted in a permanent shift to virtual-enabled ...
Editorials / BY: Yazdan Mirzanejad, MD, DTMH, FRCP, FACP, MRCP June 2022
... May 2022 issue of the BCMJ ). The first article in part 2 focuses on antimicrobial stewardship (Wong and colleagues). ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Maggie Wong, PharmD, ACPR June 2022
... pneumonia treatment ranged from 7 to 10 days;[ 2 ] however, new data suggest that shorter durations of ... They were randomly assigned to receive antibiotics until 2 days after resolution of fever, leukocytosis, and ileus ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Patrick H.P. Wong, MD, FRCPC June 2022
... a worldwide prevalence of more than 250 million people.[ 2 ] Areas with high endemicity include Asia, Africa, and ... pregnant women are routinely screened, and that 0.7% to 1.2% screen positive for HBsAg.[ 13 ] Clinical presentation of ... and management of hepatitis B.[ 12 , 15 , 20 , 21 ] Table 2 summarizes the various phases of chronic hepatitis B and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM June 2022
... Canada, it is transmitted by I. scapularis . Ticks have a 2-year life cycle and three stages; the second (nymph) and ... migrans, is seen 3 to 30 days after infection [ Figure 2 ]. If not treated, early disseminated manifestations arise ... 9% had Bell palsy, 4% had another radiculoneuropathy, 2% had meningitis or encephalitis, and 1% had carditis.[ 4 ] ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Haile Zapata-Dixon June 2022
... of whom 4.9 million were returning Canadian residents.[ 2 ] Since 2015, transnational travel between Canada and ... (n = 41/620, 7%), and dengue (n = 18/620, 3%) [ Table 2 ]. Among travelers who required outpatient management, the ... most (71%) of the active tuberculosis exposures [ Table 2 ]: India (n = 50, 29%), China (n = 45, 26%), and the ...