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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Patti Dods, MET April 2005
... place the premature death toll from air pollution in BC at approximately 140 to 400 deaths per year, with 700 to ... is the air pollutant with greatest cause for concern in BC. Particles that are 2.5 micrometers or less in diameter ... —Patti Dods, MET —Ray Copes, MD British Columbia Centre for Disease Control BC Centre for Disease Control Wood ...
News / BY: John McCracken, MD April 2005
Asante Centre receives grant to combat FASD In February Ken Stewart, ... funding from various community organizations and the BC government. The Asante Centre is one of only 11 facilities ... begun the task of producing the eighth edition of the “BC Guide,” which will be more evidence-based (wherever ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: K. Pielak, RN, MSN May 2005
... high-risk groups against vaccine-preventable disease. The BC Ministry of Health Services, in partnership with the BC Centre for Disease Control and provincial health ...
Letters / BY: H. Ewart Woolley, MD May 2005
... colleagues  (BCMJ 2004;9:472)  in his report from the BC Centre for Disease Control, has expressed his concern that ...
News / BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS May 2005
... of information and forum to discuss organized medicine in BC; three-quarters feel it is a useful source to keep them up-to-date with new services and procedures in BC. • The  BCMJ  and  CMAJ  are still the most read ... a Family Practice Group in the New Ambulatory Care Centre at Vancouver Hospital The Family Practice Department ...
President's Comment / BY: Jack Burak, MD June 2005
... the release of the BCMA’s document  Specialty Care in BC—A System in Distress , which gave government a failing ... crisis in full-service family practice has been front and centre for the past 8 months. I have found the Professional ... be sent out to referendum for approval or rejection by all BC family physicians. I have attended the conferences ...
Premise / BY: David Snadden, MBChB, MCISc, MD, FRCGP, FRCP (Edin) June 2005
The expansion of BC’s medical program is the first in a series of steps we ... In June 2000, approximately 7000 residents of northern BC came together at an arena in Prince George to protest ... broken at UNBC for the Donald Rix Northern Health Science Centre. In spring 2004, testing of technology and ...
News June 2005
... Award Dr George Magee, a rural doctor from Burns Lake, BC, was recently awarded a 2005 British Columbia Community ... or an accident. In advance of incapability, adults in BC can write a representation agreement that names their ... agreements. The Representation Agreement Resource Centre (RARC) is a provincial non-profit organization ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Duncan Robertson, MD, FRCP, FRCPC June 2005
... Office of the Provincial Health Officer, [2]  and on the BC Injury Research and Prevention Unit web site. [3] An older ... however, this is not the case in many other parts of BC. Over the next year the BCMA Geriatric and Palliative Care ... Dementia Care in BC, held at the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University on 4 April ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Mark Gilbert, MD, MHSc, FRCPC June 2005
... disease due to  N. meningitides  group C in gay men in BC. Cases presented with meningitis and septicemia, and there ... group C conjugate vaccine to all gay and bisexual men in BC. The program was announced through a media campaign and ... MD, FRCPC D. Patrick, MD, FRCPC K. Pielak, RN, MSN BC Centre for Disease Control —R. Gustafson, MD, FRCPC P. ...