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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Megan Edwards, PhD, MPH July/August 2024
... A/B, SARS-CoV-2, and respiratory syncytial virus.[ 1 ] Previously, testing may have been limited to only a ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Amber Sawkins, MSW, RSW July/August 2024
... and want support, call our external answering service at 1 888 922-3700. They will connect you with one of our CIR ...
Clinical Articles, Clinical Images / BY: Samantha R. Saravana-Bawan, MD, FRCP July/August 2024
... medication, which has a known twin risk of 3% to 7%.[ 1 ] Estimated gestational age was 5 weeks 3 days. ... rarest forms of multiple gestation, occurring in less than 1 in 30 000 naturally conceived pregnancies.[ 2 ] The ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS September 2024
... women, with one in eight diagnosed within their lifetime.[ 1 ] Despite stable or decreasing age-standardized incidence, ... Breast Health Action Plan developed in BC in 2010 [ Figure 1 ] .[ 5 ] The interdisciplinary nature of breast cancer care ... the benchmark standards we used in our comparisons [ Table 1 ] . Objective Our objective was to quantify wait times ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Eugene Y.H. Yeung, MD, MSc, BSc(Pharm), FRCPC, FCCM, D(ABMM), CTH September 2024
... panel nucleic-acid amplification test (IDP-NAAT).[ 1 ] It combines a multiple gene target (multiplex) that ... 14 common viral, bacterial, and parasitic pathogens [ Box 1 ; Figure 1 ] . The BC Guidelines state that the list of pathogens may ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Natasha Benson, MD, FRCPC September 2024
... is a DNA herpes virus and is endemic worldwide.[ 1 ] The virus is typically spread by person-to-person ... in British Columbia and Canada, affecting approximately 1 in 150 to 240 live births.[ 2-4 ] Infants with congenital ... sequelae that may not be present at birth [ Box 1 ] .[ 2-4 ] The seroprevalence of cytomegalovirus among ...
Premise / BY: A. Hoverman, DO, MPH, CCFP September 2024
... of 864 000, 26% of whom are 65 years of age and over. [1]  Some would consider Vancouver Island a retirement ...
Back Page / BY: Li (Danny) Liang, MD, BEng, CCFP-EM September 2024
... 2 carcinogen, according to the World Health Organization.[ 1 ] These are but some of the not-so-glamorous aspects of ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Natalie Prystajecky, PhD, SCCM September 2024
... coordinated PulseNet Canada enteric surveillance program,[ 1 ] which is built on a pathogen genomics framework. Advanced ...
Letters / BY: Marina Afanasyeva, MD, MPH, PhD, FRCPC September 2024
... present with wet and sweating skin. Epstein and Yanovich[ 1 ] describe the two types of heatstroke well. Importantly, ...