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News / BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS October 2008
... additional coverage in the future, without proof of good health. Even if you work in a group practice or a clinic, if ...
Letters / BY: Kristin Sivertz, MD, FRCPC October 2008
... programs as well as our partner universities and health authorities. The UBC Faculty of Medicine Evaluation ...
Letters / BY: Paul K.B. Dagg, MD, FRCPC, October 2008
... people with concurrent developmental disability and mental health disorders, there is an error in the article with ... and thus concludes that “there is no acute mental health crisis resource for people with DD outside the usual ... previously provided by River­view for the Interior Health Authority (IHA) for over 2 years, and for the Northern ...
Letters / BY: Kathleen Makuch, BSW, October 2008
... other dual diagnosis: Developmental disability and mental health disorders” ( BCMJ 2008;50[6]:312-324 ). I am a ...
Letters October 2008
... practice of these physicians, the workload of other health care workers, and most importantly, patient care.  It ...
Letters / BY: Andrew Farquhar, MD October 2008
... between “mechanistic and vitalistic” approaches to health. With evangelical enthusiasm and an occasional mention ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD October 2008
... lifestyle changes, counseling, addiction, mental health, and more, but then ignore our own advice. I wonder ... easily and I would recommend accessing the Phys­ician Health Support Program (604 742-0747, 800 663-6729,  ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) October 2008
... products and devices including regular drugs and natural health products. The bill adds the following elements to the ... • The power to issue mandatory re­calls (at present, Health Canada has only the power to issue a warning if a drug or natural health product is found to be tainted or unsafe). • An ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: David M. Patrick, MD, FRCPC, MHSc October 2008
... Do Bugs Need Drugs? program continues to be an important health initiative in BC. Since its inception, 25000 grade 2 children, 5000 children in day care, and 6000 health care professionals have received educational ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nathan A. Hoag, BSc, October 2008
... and whether it should be covered under government-funded health care.[ 3 ] Currently, prostate-specific antigen (PSA) ... Agency (39.4%) and the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (19.7%).  No significant correlations between ... by the fact that PSA tests for screening are funded by health insurance in Newfoundland but not in BC.  Though the ...