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News June 2011
... Program Award is given to an individual or group of health-care providers in recognition of an exceptional ...
News June 2011
... per year. Médicins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the World Health Organization are petitioning African governments to ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Gerry Greenstone, MD, June 2011
... of patients showed significant responses, and the World Health Organization carried out a short-term, double-blind ... condoms throughout the course of therapy. In January 2008 Health Canada authorized the use of lenalidomide (Revlimid) ... through a program called RevAid set up by Celgene and Health Canada, which is very similar to the STEPS program in ...
Obituaries / BY: John O’Brien-Bell, MB June 2011
... to be­come lifelong friends. In the early 1960s National Health Service family practice was in turmoil. The British ...
President's Comment / BY: Ian Gillespie, MD June 2011
... the clinical forums. At other times I chose to highlight health topics that do not receive all the consi­deration ... intimidation.” The long-term consequences of IPV include health risks, posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and staggering economic costs for health care of victims.  Intimate partner violence is often ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Susan Dixon June 2011
... the best scientific evidence on a broad range of workplace health and safety issues. In 2000, the WorkSafeBC Research ... from measuring the full costs and benefits of occupational health and safety interventions in health care to studying heart disease in firefighters and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: James Lee, MD, July/August 2011
... will be posted on the guidelines section of the Child Health BC website:  www.childhealthbc.ca . Competing ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kevin Farrell, MBChB, July/August 2011
... Collaborative Perinatal Project (NCCP)5 and the Child Health and Education (CHES),6 have used certain clinical ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Catherine Elliott, MD, July/August 2011
... Centre (DPIC) has recently joined Environmental Health Services (EHS) at the BC Centre for Disease Control ... Together we provide comprehensive medical and public health expertise about cases of environmental exposures to ... investigation conducted by an EHS physician and regional health authority staff found multiple potential exposure ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Jeffrey R. Brubacher, MD, July/August 2011
... Committee This article is the opinion of the Council on Health Promotion and has not been peer reviewed by the  BCMJ  Editorial Board. Council on Health Promotion Cannabis and motor vehicle crashes ...