Clinical Articles /
BY: Marlene E. Hunter, MD, FCFPC
January/February 2003
... Lake has the most northern, rural, isolated health care centre in the province, far more isolated than Fort St. John ... The first clinic in Dease Lake, a joint project of the BC government and the BC College of Family Physicians, opened in 1981–82. I ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Barbara Cadario, BSc, BScPhm, MSc
January/February 2003
... Columbia, over 600 reports are sent annually to the BC Regional ADR Centre, the local centre for pharmacovigilance set up by ... 678-6789 (toll free). Alternatively, use e-mail ( adr@dpic.bc.ca ) or the toll free telephone number (1 866 234-2345). ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Martin Petric, PhD, FCCM
March 2003
... — A. McNabb, BSc, RT — J. Isaac-Renton, MD, FRCPC BC Centre for Disease Control BC Centre for Disease Control Norovirus (also known as ...
Letters /
BY: Anthony Taddei, PharmD
March 2003
I am writing regarding the article “BC only province not paying for painkillers,” which ... acid (Aspirin) does. The Arthritis Research Centre of Canada claims the newer coxib drugs could reduce ...
Letters /
BY: James E Parker, MB
March 2003
... particular disease is conspicuous by its absence in the BC Centre for Disease Control item in the December 2002 issue of ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Evan Wood, MD, PhD, ABIM, FRCPC
April 2003
... 2002 at the Simon Fraser University Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue. A public health crisis Illicit drug ... it is estimated that 82% of the money spent on controlling BC’s escalating drug problem is spent on law enforcement ... the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the BC Health Research Foundation. Martin Schechter is a Canadian ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Stuart Johnston, MD
May 2003
... established between the Ulkatcho band, Anahim Lake Health Centre, and the Emergency Room at Cariboo Memorial Hospital ... 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
September 2003
... we have always been a preferred destination for many of BC’s best medical authors. Over the 20-odd years that I ... on the grounds of content, style, or intelligibility. BC seems to have a large reservoir of skilled, energetic, ... authors will use this time to re-energize their creative centre and get back to the important task of writing for ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Gillian A. Willis, MPS
October 2003
... a centralized distribution model was implemented by the BC Drug and Poison Information Centre (DPIC). In this model, which is unique in Canada, ... health care treatment facilities. Data on Digibind use in BC and patient outcomes have been collected from 1991 to ...