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Clinical Articles / BY: Laura MacDougall, MSc June 2005
... in a mobile home on a large rural property in southern BC. Two years earlier, the mobile home had been infested with ... back to 1959. In Canada, HPS was first recognized in BC in 1994 as a result of active surveillance; subsequent ... and all specimens must be transported to the BC Centre for Disease Control laboratory according to Transport ...
News / BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS July/August 2005
... $53.50. Dr Nicola Shaw is a research scientist at the Centre for Healthcare Innovation and Improvement at the ... Protecting the blood supply from West Nile virus—BC update, 2005 Blood donor WNV testing and surveillance ... experience demonstrated limited benefit of this strategy. BC WNV Blood Action/Readiness Plan In BC, the Ministry of ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC July/August 2005
... of human illness. There was no WNV activity detected in BC in 2004 despite the extensive surveillance system ... western coast of the US it is likely that WNV will enter BC through birds traveling along the Pacific flyway, possibly ... Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC —Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM BC Centre for Disease Control BC Centre for Disease Control West ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jay Draper July/August 2005
The BC Medical Association’s 2005 Annual Convention came just 2 ... things are broken, or at least ailing, in medical care in BC and the rest of Canada. Financial issues Finance Committee ... & Community categories Geriatric Dentistry Program, Centre For Aging and Health, Providence Health Care ...
News / BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS September 2005
... of insurance choices Members of the BCMA and the CMA in BC and their families now have broader insurance choices than ... office for more information. BCMA:  Toll free in BC 1 800 665-2262 ext. 2882 or 2836/604 638-2882 or 604 ... of this year, Dr Robert E.W. Hancock, a professor at the Centre for Microbial Disease Research at the University of ...
Interviews / BY: Michael Golbey, MD September 2005
BC Medical Journal: Can you tell me about one of your career ... my desk. Once a week I admit patients to our local detox centre for which our group of four GPs provide medical ... who have made huge contributions to organized medicine in BC, and I wanted to be sure I could live up to that. But ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Galt Wilson, MD, CCFP September 2005
... physicians in British Columbia dropped from 576 (12.9% of BC physicians) in January 1994 to 490 (11.1%) in January ... of physicians required. [2,3,7] Polls suggest that 18% of BC doctors plan to retire in the next 5 years and 40% in the ... to university-hospital standards, but a designated trauma centre and a full cancer treatment facility for the north are ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Cynthia Fan, MD October 2005
...  but controversy continues. [4,5] In October 2002, the BC Ministry of Health Services, through the Provincial Blood ... number of acute care physicians along with members of the BC Transfusion Medicine Advisory Group to serve on an Albumin ... (Hematopathology, Children’s and Women’s Health Centre of British Columbia), Dr Brian Warriner (Anesthesia, ...
Premise / BY: James E. Miles, MD, FRCPC October 2005
... Times Colonist, dated 1 April 2005 and entitled, “BC Removes 11,000 names from elective surgical wait list.” ... dollars,” [6]  which was done by the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy. It found the high-cost users were ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Randy N. Ross, MSc November 2005
... Protection Services (RPS) to several facilities in BC found that some employees working with such lasers did not ... non-hospital settings. However, it is presently unclear in BC as to which practitioners can legally use this type of ... [2] —Randy N. Ross, MSc Radiation Protection Services BC Centre for Disease Control BC Centre for Disease Control ...