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WorkSafeBC / BY: Shobhit Maruti, MD, MPH, ACBOM, DABPM, FRCPC April 2023
... vibration, primarily from the use of vibrating tools.[ 1 ] Exposure occurs most commonly in a workplace setting. ... intensity, frequency, and duration of vibration exposure.[ 1 ] These make up what is known as the “vibration dose” ... with vascular and sensorineural symptoms of HAVS,[ 1 ] while low-frequency vibration, transmitted to the arms ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Kali Sedgemore April 2023
... 19 years of age died of illicit drug poisoning in BC.[ 1 ] Deaths are a result of increasing toxicity of the ...
MDs To Be / BY: Samantha Gibbon, BSc April 2023
... workers, recommendations for physicians were born [ Box 1 ]. These recommendations invite physicians to enrich their ... of Indigenous people affected by the MMIWG tragedies.[ 1 , 2 ] It is important to note that it is not only women and ... of how to safely and efficiently provide care.[ 1 ] As the number of both documented and undocumented missing ...
Beyond Medicine, COVID-19 / BY: Amritpal Maniani, BSc April 2023
... opioid-related deaths beginning approximately in 2013.[ 1 ] In 2016, opioid-related deaths were highest in Canada and ... including public education and distribution of over 1 million take-home naloxone kits,[ 5 ] illicit drug toxicity ... were Caucasian and self-identifying males [ Table 1 ]. Participants had a mean age of 19.6 years for their ...
News / BY: Hali Stus May 2023
... the fee structure that currently approaches approximately 1.4% of the value of an average policy.  Beneficiaries are ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC May 2023
... movement had taken a huge step backward.[ 1 , 2 ] Rewind to 2020, before the Netflix series, when ...
Editorials / BY: Yvonne Sin, MD May 2023
... identify as being from Chinese or South Asian heritage.[ 1 ] We have come a long way since 1922, when Dr Victoria ... of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine.[ 2 ] This was only 1 year before the Chinese Immigration Act in 1923, which ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ilona Hale, MD, FCFPC May 2023
... decisions, leading to multiple co-benefits [ Box ].[ 1 ] Co-benefits of environmentally sustainable health care: ...
Premise / BY: Paula B. Gordon, OBC, MD, FRCPC, FSBI May 2023
... in reducing mortality for women aged 40 to 74 years.[ 1 ] The trials were conducted in the era of X-ray film ... in most of the earlier randomized controlled trials, CNBSS-1 was planned to enroll 50 000 women aged 40 to 49 years. ... 20%. Although the studies have now been discredited, CNBSS-1 is still the basis for screening recommendations for women ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Tung Siu, MD, CCFP, ACBOM May 2023
... return to work after an injury or illness are well known.[ 1 , 2 ] Community family physicians are in a unique position ... at WorkSafeBC via the RACE app or call 604 696-2131 or 1 877 696-2131 toll-free. —Tung Siu, MD, CCFP, ACBOM ...