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News October 2010
... courage or the endurance of hardship in the promotion of health or the saving of life; or advancing the humanitarian ... to the advancement of medical research, medical education, health care organization, or health education of the public; service to the people of ...
News October 2010
... enrollment period for the Core-Plus Plan under the BCMA Health Benefits Trust Fund is underway. The deadline to ... open enrollment period or the plans offered under the BCMA Health Benefits Trust Fund, please visit  www.bcma.org/hbtf ...
News / BY: Pamela Verma, BSc, October 2010
... to discuss professional issues and topics in women’s health.  This meeting marked the 28th International Congress ... Opportunities. Dr Kickbusch emphasized the importance of health policy and how it must change to accommodate the globalization of health care.  She insisted that current policy is ...
President's Comment / BY: Ian Gillespie, MD October 2010
... our job if we didn’t speak up on behalf of the brain health of Canadians. Critics have wondered (somewhat ... expert opinion to government about the risks to brain health, if and when government de­cides to consider the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Robert McCormack, MD, FRCSC, November 2010
The impact of osteoarthritis on the health care system is significant and continues to grow as ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: David M. Patrick, MD, FRCPC, MHSc November 2010
... prescribing.[ 1 ]  Ten years ago, BC’s provincial health officer published a report on antimicrobial resistance ... The EQIP group, a joint initiative of the BC Ministry of Health Services, the BCMA, and UBC Faculty of Medicine’s ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC November 2010
... for injured alcohol-impaired drivers admitted to Calgary Health Region trauma service between 1999 and 2003 was only ... diabetes by interviewing Mr Clark’s physician. However, health professionals who release patient information without ... of Ethics permits “disclosure of patients’ personal health information to third parties only with their consent, ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB November 2010
... of “program management.”  The new buzzwords in our health authority seem to be carving our onceWe are ... era of “program management.” The new buzzwords in our health authority seem to be carving our once unified hospital into separate silos of health care delivery. Our interdependent departments such as ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brian Evoy, PhD, November 2010
... next 2 years.  The Division is also working with Fraser Health to develop a multidisciplinary primary care access ... physician and by nurse practitioners provided by Fraser Health. Recruitment of new physicians has also been a ... working here, but since recruitment was handled by the health au­thority and not locally, there wouldn’t be any ...
Letters November 2010
... “Marijuana is not approved for use as a drug in Canada. Health Canada states that “no marijuana product has been ... certain symptoms from which they suffer can apply to Health Canada for authorization to possess and use marijuana ...