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Premise / BY: A. Wellar May 2025
... Canadians have died from an opioid-related poisoning.[ 1 ] BC has been particularly affected, having the highest ... poisonings compared with the rest of Canada [ Table ].[ 1 ]   This burden of disease is not restricted to ... and death rates continue to rise unabated.[ 1,2 ] While reasons for the rise of substance-related ...
MDs To Be / BY: Ashini Dissanayake, BSc May 2025
... with roughly 400 of these diagnoses leading to death.[ 1 ] While routine cervical cytology screening is recommended ... questions. Events were promoted on social media [ Figure 1 ], in newspapers, and on the radio. People were eligible to ... interval. Of the 354 pre-Pap survey participants, 64.1% responded that a health care provider had discussed the ...
Obituaries / BY: Jon Wiggens May 2025
... Nanaimo, BC, on 10 March 2025 at age 85. Bryan was born on 1 June 1939 in Marton, New Zealand, to Jean Paterson Wiggens ...
Obituaries / BY: William Sanders, MD May 2025
... BC to start a residency in rehabilitation medicine. After 1 year in residency, Gavin decided he’d rather be a general ...
Letters / BY: Rashmi Chadha, MBChB, MScCH, CCFP (AM), FASAM May 2025
In her October 2022 President’s Comment,[ 1 ] Dr Ramneek Dosanjh noted, “As physicians, we are all ... that the BCMJ further its current impressive leadership[ 1-6 ] by including health care sustainability in publication ...
Original Research / BY: Amrish Joshi, MBBS, MSc Pal Med, LLM, CCFP (PC), FCFP, FRCPC June 2025
... interventions, and improve family and caregiver outcomes.[ 1-3 ] Numerous factors, including cultural, social, and ... 10 years (88%), and identified as Hindu (59%) [ Table 1 ] . No gender-specific patterns were observed in the data. ...
Original Research / BY: Emily Meagher, MPH June 2025
... approximately 855 000 people 12 years of age or older.[ 1 ] These diseases include myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic ... entry, after 6 months, at discharge (typically after 1 year), and 3 to 6 months postdischarge. The following ... with both ME/CFS and fibromyalgia ( n = 360) [ Table 1 ] . Only two participants had a confirmed diagnosis of ...
Premise / BY: Catherine Joanne Binda, MD June 2025
... Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) [ Figure 1 ] .[ 1 ] The UNCRC was informed by previous declarations, ... United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child.[ 1 ] These early documents were limited in scope, with 5 and ...
Premise / BY: Davie Wong, MD, FRCPC June 2025
... types of infections, including streptococcal pharyngitis,[ 1 ] community-acquired pneumonia,[ 2 ] and gram-negative ... in these two sequences: 3, 5, 7, X, and 14 days and 1, 2, X, and 6 weeks. What goes in the blanks? Most of us ... would be problematic, as some planets spin very slowly (1 Venus day = 243 Earth days), while others spin faster (1 ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Michael Joseph Lee, PhD June 2025
... and the development of photosynthesis in plants.[ 1 ] Today, cyanobacteria are ubiquitous and perform many ... 3 ] or multiply rapidly, forming blooms[ 4,5 ] [ Figure 1 ] . Such blooms can cause hypoxic water conditions, which ...