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News / BY: Willem R. Vroom, MD March 2011
... the belief that if we as physicians don’t participate in health care management and change issues, someone else will. ... realize that we wield huge power and influence in the health care systems. They are visionaries who have also ... of department head, chief of staff, dean of medicine, or health care administrators. It will also appeal to those ...
News March 2011
... is a new Canadian online source for reliable child health information. Developed at the Hospital for Sick ... Learning Institute, the site’s mission is to improve the health and well-being of children in Canada and around the world by making child health care information available in multiple languages via ...
News March 2011
Vancouver Coastal Health’s Bridge Clinic is the first stop for most of the ... and provides culturally sensitive preventive and primary health care to individuals and families starting new lives in ... communicable and tropical diseases. They receive primary health care, in­cluding screening for and treatment of ...
News&Notes / BY: J. Pawlovich, MD March 2011
... Bri­tish Columbia is on the cusp of great change. Rural health care has met the information technology age and things ... between the au­thor and a strongly supportive Northern Health Authority. It was a proposal that articulated the need to bring echocardiograms into a rural health care facility away from the regional centres.  The ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jack Teng, PhD, April 2011
... surveys for tick-borne pathogens. Between 1993 and 2006 health practitioners and private citizens sent ticks ... contracting zoonoses when exposed to a tick in the region. Health professionals should thus fo­cus on improving public ... Given the low prevalence of tick-borne pathogens, health professionals should focus on im­proving public ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Kur, MD, FRCPC, ABIM April 2011
... mechanical back pain. They frequently work with a team of health care professionals, including physiotherapists, ... at high rates. • Directing Ministry of Health funding to allied health practitioners with extra training in arthritis to ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Natalie Prystajecky, PhD, SCCM April 2011
... res­taurant, event, cruise ship).  In 2010 BCCDC Public Health Mi­crobiology and Reference Laboratory (BCPHMRL) ... worldwide.  This strain is known to predominate in health care and residential care facilities, likely due to a ... peroxide, a cleaner/disinfectant, may be used.[ 2 ]  In health care settings (including physician offices), patients ...
Council on Health Promotion April 2011
... May 10 is the annual day proclaimed by the World Health Organization to draw attention to the importance to our health of being physically active. This event began last year ... event is sponsored as a formal project by the Council on Health Promotion with the goal of having an event in every ...
Letters / BY: Willem R. Vroom, MD April 2011
... These are specific indications for marijuana as per Health Canada’s Medical Practitioner form B1. However, most ... prevalent use of recreational marijuana in BC.  Whether Health Canada or the courts created “medical marijuana” ... compassion” and the resultant introduction by Health Canada of medical access to marijuana. Medical ...
Letters / BY: Phillipe Lucas, April 2011
... chron­ic pain. Dr Vroom is simply wrong in claiming that Health Canada created “medical marijuana” to address ... to be unconstitutional. What we can all agree on is that Health Canada’s federal medical can­nabis program has done ...