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Clinical Articles / BY: Roey M. Malleson, MBBS, DFFP, MHSC January/February 2002
... for more than 25 years, studies continue to indicate that health professionals do not routinely counsel about EC, and ... offices. Planned Parenthood clinics, some student health services, and youth clinics have emergency ... recent randomized controlled trial conducted by the World Health Organization demonstrated that effectiveness of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Fikre Germa, MD, CCFP(EM) January/February 2002
... morbidity, eliminating TB transmission, and reducing health care costs. Any physician working with members of ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD January/February 2002
... that he would spearhead a challenge to the Canada Health Act as the first step in partially privatizing the delivery of health care in Canada. There have been a number of ... fund medicare and is planning a challenge to the Canada Health Act. Mr Klein made this announcement at a press ...
Letters / BY: Robert Grist, MD January/February 2002
... I had accepted the conclusions presented in the Nurses’ Health Study,[3] along with improved cholesterol profile data ... however, such as the latest review of the Nurses’ Health Study, the PEPI conclusions, and the HERS study, ably ... the median age of onset of this occurrence. The Women’s Health Initiative has already identified increased risk of MI ...
Letters / BY: John Hall, MD January/February 2002
... very well the attitude that many patients have about health professionals. The article can be applied equally ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Samuel H. Krikler, MB, ChB, FRCPC March 2002
... because of the impact (including cost savings to the health care system) that early detection would have on ... Diagnostic Laboratory at BC’s Children’s and Women’s Health Centre using the method described by Feder and ... and Protocols Advisory Committee (BCMA and BC Ministry of Health) has recently developed guidelines for the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Paul C. Adams, MD March 2002
... directors of insurance companies (Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association Annual Meeting 2001) about ... the United States and Canada. In the meantime, many public health authorities are still unconvinced that there is a need ... and patients of hemochromatosis, leading to a preventive health strategy for high-risk groups. The highest risk group ...
College Library / BY: Jim Henderson March 2002
... the Ministry of Children and the Family to the Ministry of Health Services. Those familiar with addiction medicine will ... along the library. The latest reorganization of BC’s health care system reduces centralized addiction services and ... tailored to various grade levels. The BCMA Council on Health Promotion has been active through two subcommittees, ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD March 2002
... and pony show at the recent first minister’s meeting on health care here in Vancouver was more entertaining than ... they were anything less than  la première étoiles  of health care and maintained their customary separateness ... initiative and its recommendations will not influence health care funding decisions of the so-called have ...
Letters / BY: Frederick Spohn, MD March 2002
... BC Medical Plan some $4 million annually with very little health benefit to our population. Fear tactic advertising to ... irresponsible at a time when we are attempting to keep health costs down and still provide an excellent health care system. —Frederick Spohn, MD  Langley Dr Spohn ...