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News June 2010
BC Transplant, an agency of the Provincial Health Services Authority, is appealing to all British ...
News&Notes / BY: Robert Young, MD, June 2010
... ideas. He wanted the BCMA to produce a weekly info/health column for the province’s smaller papers. I did not ...
Obituaries / BY: J.L. Benedet, MD, FRCS, June 2010
... cancer.  For his colleagues at the Fraser-Burrard Health Region he established and conducted a scientific ...
Obituaries / BY: Robert Hill, BMBCh June 2010
... un­believable sequence of medical problems affecting the health of his family, and finally his own health. It was impressive to see the fortitude he showed in ...
Obituaries / BY: Carolyn van Schagen, MD, June 2010
... the Peace Arch Obstetrical Clinic and the Bridge Community Health Clinic, which provides care for refugees and refugee ... A scholarship supporting residents interested in global health has been started in Kerry and Sarah’s memory. ...
President's Comment / BY: Brian Brodie, MD June 2010
... This year has given me an opportunity to look at the health care system from a slightly higher altitude. Policies, ... through this past year.  Work-life balance   Just as health is more than the absence of disease, life is found ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Andrew Montgomerie, June 2010
... to simplify and streamline the way we work with our health care providers. Here are some initiatives we’ve ... WorkSafeBC’s web site, worksafebc.com, allows our health care providers to check the claim status of an ... status” or “Check invoice payment status” from the Health Care Providers menu on the right side of the page ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael Bayliss, MD, FRCPC, July/August 2010
... Women’s Hos­pital in Boston designed the Physicians’ Health Study, the first randomized controlled trial to ... At approximately the same time that the Physicians’ Health Study was underway, a group from Oxford University in ... Trial conflicted with those of the Physicians’ Health Study, it is important to note that the British trial ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Megan Isaac-Renton, BSc, July/August 2010
... in the province to further define the clinical and public health importance of this infection.  Although tularemia is rare, physicians, laboratory staff, and public health workers should be alert to the possibility of disease ... was sent to the BC Centre for Disease Control Public Health Microbiology and Reference Laboratory for ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Bill Mackie, MD July/August 2010
... in animals, particularly food animals? The Environmental Health Committee thinks so.  Doctors are in­creasingly ... Uses of Antimicrobials and Impact on Resistance and Human Health made 38 recommendations to the Canadian government in ... throughout our shared environment. The En­vir­on­mental Health Committee will be bringing a resolution to the ...