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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Tom Kosatsky, MD, MPH June 2010
... to be an important contributor to population mortality in British Columbia.  Although summer temperatures of over ...
News / BY: Barbara Cadario, BSc, BScPhm, MSc June 2010
... and ideally to avoid combining “risky” drugs. The British Columbia Fall and Injury Prevention Coalition is ...
News June 2010
... Provincial Health Services Authority, is appealing to all British Columbians who have not yet become organ donors to ... Registering takes less than 3 minutes. Almost 752000 British Colum­bians (17% of the population) have registered ...
Obituaries / BY: J.L. Benedet, MD, FRCS, June 2010
... taught home economics. He attended the University of British Columbia, receiving his MD degree in 1969.  ...
President's Comment / BY: Brian Brodie, MD June 2010
... made in providing quality medical care to the patients of British Columbia.  Together, over the years, we have won ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael Bayliss, MD, FRCPC, July/August 2010
... in England was conducting a large randomized trial, the British Doc­tors’ Trial.[ 8 ]  Over 20000 invitations ... MI, stroke, or mortality.  Although the results from the British Doctors’ Trial conflicted with those of the ... Health Study, it is important to note that the British trial was open-labeled and had an event rate 3 times ...
News July/August 2010
A new study by University of British Columbia researchers has found that fewer than 2% of ...
News&Notes / BY: Jay Draper July/August 2010
... thanks to the great advocacy work we’ve done recently, British Columbia will be the first jurisdiction in North ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Margot Davis, MD, September 2010
... of cardiovascular risk factors. Roy Dawber Born in Duncan, British Columbia, on 18 January 1913, Thomas Royle (Roy) ... risk factor levels and survival estimates of British minority ethnic groups for those values derived by ... group.  It provides a risk assessment model for British people of In­dian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, black ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Erica Frank, MD, September 2010
... population, the most active of all the provinces: 55% of British Columbians over age 20 are moderately physically ... Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, and the British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund. Competing ... mental health status and health practices of physicians in British Columbia ...