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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Rob Gair, BSc (Pharm), March 2008
... and lifestyle modification to treat disease and maintain health. Ayurvedic medicines, known as bhasmas, commonly ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Bill Mackie, MD March 2008
... function properly, too much salt definitely increases our health risks.  Most sodium consumed comes from sodium ... level of sodium because it is so easy to do. According to Health Canada, 90% of men and 65% of women exceed the upper ... hypertension. That, in turn, has direct savings to the health care system of approximately $430 million annually ...
Editorials / BY: Lindsay M. Lawson, MD March 2008
... within a year. We have yet to see the full impact on the health system of smoking-induced illnesses in all those baby ...
Editorials / BY: Robert D. Levy, MD, FRCPC March 2008
... with COPD a short while back! COPD is a major public health problem. It is the fourth leading cause of chronic ... 3 ] Yet COPD fails to receive adequate attention from the health care community as well as from health policy decision-makers. The goal of this and the next ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Bill Cavers, MD March 2008
High-risk mental health pa­tients and the GPs who care for them are ... benefiting from a new $8 million community-based mental health initiative launched by the General Practice Services ... to be compensated for taking time to consider their mental health patients’ needs, for developing care plans in ...
Letters / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP March 2008
... has been given to the importance of physical activity for health and reduced mortality.  The review of the early ... pedo­meters to increase physical activity and improve health” concludes that pedometer use is associated with ...
News / BY: Darrell Thomson, March 2008
... of myriad committees, dealing with everything from health system planning to dispute resolution. No fewer than ...
Obituaries / BY: Archie Young, MDCM, March 2008
... Depression. His father was a milk salesman and not in good health, and Al had to get up early to help his father with ...
Obituaries / BY: Brian Brodie, MD March 2008
... with energy and enthusiasm and was well known for the health fairs he established.   Dr Randhawa was also a ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Jonathan Fenton, MD, FRCS, March 2008
... to supporting BC’s physicians in providing quality health care services to their injured worker patients. ...