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Letters / BY: M.M. Moran, MB May 2003
... such as Dease Lake. Unfortunately, I believe that the BC Medical Association has the same understanding of the ... rural, and isolated area such as Prince George. If the  BC Medical Journal  invites articles such as this, perhaps ...
Letters / BY: Ralph Jones, MD May 2003
... cessation. She was surprised (as was I, when I arrived in BC) to find that an MSP fee is not payable for lifestyle ... then-minister wrote me a nice letter, explaining that in BC there existed an extensive public health and education ... whilst doctors got on with doctoring. Since arriving in BC my health unit seems to be otherwise too preoccupied to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Stuart Johnston, MD May 2003
... Janet McGregor, Mr Michael Darling, Ms Valerie Ashworth, BC Ministry of Health; Ms Diane Anderson, Office of Trade and Investment, Mr Lee Denny, director of HealthNet BC Division; Mr George Carson, manager, Network Services, ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: K. Pielak, RN, MSN June 2003
... Pielak, RN, MSN Nurse Epidemiologist Epidemiology Services BC Centre for Disease Control BC Centre for Disease Control New vaccine programs to improve ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD June 2003
... I suspect that a vaccine will be produced quite quickly. BC scientists claim to be very close to producing a usable vaccine. (I suspect the BC group had the quick start because of the Michael Smith ...
Letters / BY: Donald J. Young, MD June 2003
... to the program? What’s to stop the price of drugs in BC from becoming as expensive as in the US if the majority of ... distributed (the glaring example being the US system), the BC government will happily watch as the per capita spending ...
Letters / BY: Tom Pickles, MD, FRCPC June 2003
... survival. The use of surgical castration has fallen in BC over the last decade—in 1995, 280 men underwent ... cancer is neither licensed in Canada, nor funded by the BC Cancer Agency. Surgical orchiectomy is a simple procedure ... metastatic prostate cancer exceeds $5 million annually in BC, so increased utilization of orchiectomy would lead to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: John H. Hay, MB July/August 2003
... undergoing testing as an adjuvant treatment. [11] Current BC guidelines for managing stage II and stage III rectal ... study CO16 is a UK Medical Research Council trial open to BC patients through the BCCA. It compares short-course ... and chemotherapy in conjunction with surgery. Here are the BC guidelines. Clinical Articles Adjuvant strategies for ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Norman Phillips MSc July/August 2003
... cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in BC after lung cancer. The lifetime risk of dying of ... of colonoscopies required for a screening program in BC. Moreover, the effectiveness of colonoscopy screening has ... computer model for the development of colorectal cancer in BC and uses it to estimate the effectiveness of screening ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD July/August 2003
... persuasion. I also hope that as a result, docs in BC will ensure that the necessary changes in the management ...