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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 ... a provincial dialogue called Transforming Dementia Care in BC, held at the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue at Simon ...
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 ... approximately 13% to 18% of the gay male population in BC). In March and April 2005, there were two further cases of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Yulia Lin, MD, FRCPC June 2005
... Blood Coordinating Office web site  (www.bloodlink.bc.ca) . Prescribing physicians should refer to the most ... of these guidelines has been published on the Bloodlink BC web site Physicians can optimize patient outcome and ...
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 ... cases have been restricted to the western provinces of BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. Alberta has ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Don Krawciw, MD July/August 2005
... your local municipal waste disposal department or the BC Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection, Product ...
President's Comment / BY: Michael Golbey, MD July/August 2005
... working environment of physicians is improved to make sure BC can successfully retain and recruit the doctors we so ... consideration other points of view. This will be good for BC, good for our patients, and good for physicians. And as ... relationship between this government and the doctors of BC. A good working relationship will be necessary as we enter ...
News / BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS July/August 2005
... 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 Health Services, Provincial Blood ...
Letters / BY: Lynn Moran July/August 2005
... Depending upon where an individual has chosen to live in BC, and when he or she needs health care services, it may or ... or marginal population. This is a significant portion of BC society and ad hoc programs aimed at specific segments of ... and safe health services to the ever-widening diversity of BC’s population. AMSSA, the Affiliation of Multicultural ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB July/August 2005
... will have to change to make insurance available locally. BC and Alberta will not sit passively by and watch money ...
Editorials / BY: Alan Brookstone, MD July/August 2005
... does a train have to the current state of health care in BC? Information technology (IT), and believe me, it’s big ...