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News / BY: Arun K. Garg, PhD, MD March 2007
... more challenging. The Community Nutritionists Council of BC has recently revised and updated its Compendium of ... when registered under the Medical Services Plan (MSP) of BC.  What level of coverage is provided by Pharmacare? ...  or through Ms Tara Lyon at 604 638-2842 or  tlyon@bcma.bc.ca . The deadline for applications is 1 May 2007. Love ...
Letters / BY: Adeera Levin, MD, FRCPC March 2007
... Disease Outcome Quality Initiative (KDOQI) guidelines. BC Health and the BCMA Guidelines and Protocols Advisory ... that should be used. — Adeera Levin, MD, FRCPC Director, BC Renal Agency — Nancy Craven, MD, CCFP Clinical ...
ICBC / BY: Martin Ray, MD, March 2007
... largest property and casualty insurers and one of BC’s largest corporations. ICBC was established in 1973 ... as the sole provider of compulsory basic auto insurance in BC. ICBC’s basic rates are set and regulated by the BC Utilities Commission. Insurance and driver services ICBC ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD March 2007
... training and experience that they simply don’t have. BC has yet to follow Alberta into this new territory. The ... potential legal and ethical ramifications of doing so for BC’s doctors and pharmacists suggest that such legislation ...
Editorials / BY: Susan E. Haigh, MD March 2007
... states that she has good data that only 40% of patients in BC with diabetes mellitus are getting good care and that an ... There are a number of programs that have been initiated in BC (by Dr Ballem, I believe), mainly at the GP level, to ... a good job. Damned by faint praise! —SEH Editorials BC: the land of substandard diabetes care? ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Garth M. Evans, March 2007
... of continuous real-time monitoring will provide more BC communities with appropriate early warnings of potential ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Kevin Elwood, MD March 2007
... less dangerous. —R.K. Elwood, MBBCh —V. Cook, MD BC Centre for Disease Control BC Centre for Disease Control Tuberculosis and TNF – α ...
Clinical Articles / BY: William J. Kierans, BA, MA March 2007
... at each gestational age have been available to BC physicians for several decades, [3-6]  but have been ... that previously appeared on the Newborn Record in BC hospitals were modifications of charts based on births in ... male and female statistics) as the standards for births in BC, and these standards now appear on the Newborn Record in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Brett Heilbron, MB ChB March 2007
... angiograms at the Canada Diagnostic Centres in Vancouver, BC. He has no ownership or other financial interest in Canada ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: J.L. Benedet, MD, FRCS, April 2007
... Allan, MD, FRCSC, was born in April 1944, in Vancouver, BC, to school teacher parents. As a young lad he grew up in ... in colposcopy and was one of the first individuals in BC to learn these skills. Together with the late Henry ... in all parts of the province and what was then called the BC Cancer Institute, now the BC Cancer Agency (BCAA). He was ...