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Clinical Articles / BY: Jasmine Grewal, MD, FRCPC January/February 2004
... 1 evidence). And in accordance with this clinical tip, the BC Congestive Heart Failure Advisory Committee has proposed a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Paula Braitstein, MA, MSc January/February 2004
... medical director of the Liver Transplant Program, the BC Transplant Society, 17 July 2003). While antiretroviral ... an HIV-infected patient has not received a transplant in BC yet, this may change. Reports from the United States, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Teresa Clarke, MD January/February 2004
... with medical treatments. As acupuncture is not covered by BC’s Medical Services Plan, patients either paid privately ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Victoria J. Cook, MD, FRCPC January/February 2004
... presently appear to outweigh the benefits, and the FNIHB BC-Yukon Region has elected to discontinue routine BCG ... Elwood, MB, MRCP(UK), FRCPC Director, TB Control BC Centre for Disease Control BCG adieu ...
Editorials / BY: Eric M. Yoshida, OBC, MD, MHSc, FRCPC January/February 2004
... opportunistic infections such as cytomegalovirus. In BC and the rest of Canada, patients and physicians alike can ... for good long-term outcomes. [3]  To date, no one in BC with HIV has received a transplant and only one patient ... received a liver transplant in Canada. Despite this, the BC Transplant Society has been actively assessing HIV/HCV ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD January/February 2004
I just love living in BC. Besides all the obvious feel-good things we constantly hear trumpeted by the “Beautiful BC” people in the Ministry of Tourism, there is a constant ... if you haven’t read it, find it and read it! The BC government’s stated reasoning behind the need to ...
Letters / BY: Donald J. Young, MD January/February 2004
... care delivery in Canada. I’m sure that hospitals in BC would find this very useful—especially in places like ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jean Hlady, MD, FRCPC March 2004
... thanks to Ms Adrienne Glen, MSW, and Mrs Val Redpath of BC’s Children’s Hospital for their assistance in the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Christine E. Jarchow, MSW March 2004
... reports result in a child protection investigation. [4] In BC, child welfare definitions, reporting laws, and ... suspected cases of child maltreatment to authorities. In BC, the  Child, Family and Community Service Act  requires ... and neglect. The Child Protection Service Unit (CPSU) at BC’s Children’s Hospital has existed since the mid-1970s. ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: G. Butt, MHSc March 2004
... not been effectively addressed by our health care system. BC Hepatitis Services, a provincially funded program, was initiated at the BC Centre for Disease Control in January 2001 to coordinate a ... partnership building, and sharing of fiscal resources, BC Hepatitis Services facilitated collaboration with public ...