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News December 2007
Radon has been recognized as a health risk to the general public for more than 25 years. The ... BC Centre for Disease Control News Radon: the invisible health risk ...
Obituaries / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) December 2007
... June Dr Barry Beyerstein, a member of the BCMA’s Allied Health and Alternative Therapies Committee, passed away while ...
Premise / BY: Shalinder Arneja, MD, MHSc, December 2007
... was a scientific philosopher with interests in the leading health philosophies of the time, including magnetic healing, ... the discovery and development of the polio vaccine. Public health initiatives strongly supported the vaccination ... It is the responsibility of critical thinkers and public health officials to examine the claims and the evidence for ...
Premise / BY: Roger S. Tonkin, MDCM, FRCPC, OBC December 2007
... are provided for by family physicians or community health nurses while those in social or emotional crisis or with chronic health conditions are less well served and would benefit from ... obstetrics and gynecology, psychology, psychiatry, public health, and epidemiology are among the list of contributing ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Perry Kendall, OBC, MBBS, MSc, FRCPC December 2007
... I started what would become a lifetime career in public health, in the ear­ly 1970s, at Vancouver’s Pine Street ... media and in the public’s mind with the idea of public health. Francis John Blatherwick has de­fined public health for a generation of British Columbians. Whether it was ...
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