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Clinical Articles / BY: Shelly Phillips, MA, April 2007
Zero to Three, the National Centre for Infants, Toddlers, and Families, defines infant ... mental health services. In most communities throughout BC, specialized treatment services for high-risk infant ... is the one resource consistently available throughout BC. The nurse can play a pivotal role in identifying early ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Mark Gilbert, MD, MHSc, FRCPC May 2007
... laboratory testing for HIV as described above.  Under the BC Health Act, HIV is a reportable infection and all ... be in place for all types of POC HIV test kits in use in BC (i.e., quality control conducted by an organization ... quality control measures. —M. Gilbert, MD, FRCP BC Centre for Disease Control —E. Wong, BSN, MBA Public Health ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Pratibha Reebye, MBBS, FRCPC, May 2007
... disorder seen at the Infant Psychiatry Clinic at BC Children’s Hospital.” Preventive intervention  Family ... can refer patients to the Infant Psychiatry Clinic at BC Children’s Hospital (604 875-2719) and the Alan Cashmore Centre (604 454-1676). Outside the Lower Mainland, community ...
Obituaries / BY: Michele Matthews (née Marinker), June 2007
... of surgery at the Jubilee Hospital, and president of the BC Surgical Society. In his spare time, he mastered chess ... one of the 13 original doctors of the Algoma Group Health Centre in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario—referred to by the ... have contributed to the development of the Group Health Centre (GHC). He and ever-beautiful Maureen moved to Victoria ...
Clinical Articles / BY: C. Mackie, MD, MHSc, CCFP June 2007
... the public have the information they need to prepare. The BC Ministry of Health web site offers a wealth of pandemic influenza planning information ( www.health.gov.bc.ca/pandemic/planning.html ) along with links to federal ... of the pandemic as it develops. The British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) will play a key role in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC June 2007
... a pandemic, and Drs Mackie and Lu discuss the need for BC’s health authorities to have a strong relationship with ... local health authority or to visit the web sites of the BC Ministry of Health ( www.health.gov.bc.ca/pandemic ), the ... —Danuta M. Skowronski, MD  Physician Epidemiologist, BC Centre for Disease Control  Department of Health Care and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Réka Gustafson, MD, MSc, MHSc, FRCPC June 2007
... for a shorter period.  In the event of a pandemic in BC, the medical health officers in each health authority, ... Public Health Agency of Canada, in conjunction with the BC Centre for Disease Control and local public health, will ...
News July/August 2007
... medicine, palliative care, and now as the director of the Centre for Practitioner Renewal. The latter is jointly funded ... Dept. of Psychiatry 7000 Westminster Highway  Richmond BC, V6X 1A2 Phone 604 278-9711, ext. 4055 ... just started.  Called the FPs4BC (Family Physicians for BC) Program, it provides eligible physicians with access to ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC July/August 2007
... The most important vectorborne illnesses to consider in BC are West Nile virus (WNV) spread by mosquitoes and Lyme ... of an infected tick. While we have not had WNV activity in BC, it has caused illness in neighboring states and provinces ... Henry MD, MPH, FRCPC —Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM BC Centre for Disease Control BC Centre for Disease Control ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michelle P. Wong, MD July/August 2007
The Transfusion Medicine Advisory Group (TMAG) of BC has prepared guidelines to assist physicians in their ... Provincial Coordinating Office web site ( www.bloodlink.bc.ca ) and will be updated periodically. Prescribing ... presumed diagnosis of TTP must be referred emergently to a centre staffed with a hematology or nephrology consultant and ...