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Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brian Evoy, PhD, November 2010
... physicians across the province. Since its launch almost 2 years ago, the initiative has seen the creation of 18 ... recruit up to four new family physicians within the next 2 years.  The Division is also working with Fraser Health to ...
News / BY: Judy Hamill, November 2010
... hunt for the needle in a haystack. Up until about 2 years ago, researchers had no way to look through thousands ...
News / BY: Michael Schachter, MD, November 2010
... prevalence of CKD, which is estimated to affect more than 2 million Canadians.[ 2 ] The  Table  shows the projected CKD prevalence figures ...
News / BY: Susan Pinton, November 2010
... Heart and Stroke Foundation of BC & Yukon has launched a 2-year campaign to educate BC residents about the five ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Angus Rae, MB, FRCPC November 2010
... was a Nazi collaborator imprisoned in the local barracks.[ 2 ] She was moribund from uremia due to sulphonamide anuria ... kidney to England, the United States, and Canada.[ 2 ] It was used several times in London in that year with ... became a possibility us­ing this Scribner-Quinton shunt.[ 2 , 4 ] Dr Palmer, alert to these advances, saw the potential ...
Clinical Articles / BY: P. Terry Phang, MD December 2010
... was given to about 50% of eligible patients with Stages 2 and 3 disease. Step 2: Strategy development After recognizing these management ... lymph nodes within an intact mesorectal fascial envelope.[ 2 ]  Local recurrence rates at 10 years for curative ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Lauren MacDonald, BScH, MSc, December 2010
... long-term risks to their health and well-being.[ 2 , 6-8 ] These “late effects” may not become apparent ... neoplasms over the normal population was 1.3% at 15 years, 2.5% at 20 years, and 4% at 25 years.  The most common ... females only (requires ovarian stimulation over at least 2 weeks prior to starting chemo­therapy or radiation, so it ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Catherine Elliott, MD, December 2010
... of pollutants including fine partic­ulate matter (PM 2.5) and many tox­ic compounds.[ 1 ] Exposure to forest fire ... health ef­fects,[ 1 ] including asthma exacerbations[ 2 ] and other respiratory complaints.[ 3 ] This summer, ... New Westminster, Burnaby, and Coquitlam, even though PM 2.5 reached only 17.6 ug/m3 ( Figure 2 ). Although the ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Wilma Arruda, MD, December 2010
... children were vulnerable, up from 28.5% in 2008/9.[ 2 ] • “Unnecessary early vulnerability in BC is costing ...
News / BY: Perry Kendall, OBC, MBBS, MSc, FRCPC December 2010
... the 2008/09 influenza season. This is a decrease of almost 2% from the previous season, moving us further from our ...