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Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Clay Barber, January/February 2011
... Agreement between the Ministry of Health Services and the BC Medical Association.  While the GPSC and the SSC are ... respiratory medicine at Vancouver’s Pacific Lung Health Centre. He says Shared Care has helped define the role of the ...
News / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB January/February 2011
... the condition. This led her to start a treatment centre for epilepsy in rural Tanzania 50 years ago. This ... of epilepsy in this region. Dr Jilek-Aall now lives in BC and continues to support the work she started years ago in ...
News January/February 2011
... developed by cancer researchers and dermatologists at the BC Cancer Agency and the University of British Columbia. The ... the Verisante Aura series, has been in development at the BC Cancer Agency for more than 6 years and has been tested on about 1000 lesions at the Skin Care Centre at VGH. Preliminary clinical results have so far ...
Obituaries / BY: M. Graham Clay, MD, January/February 2011
... younger daughter, Andrea, is a family physician in Sidney, BC. Chris was born in London, England, where his father, Sir ... was located at 1665 West Broadway, now the address of the BC Medical Association. Aside from his own practice, his ... Chris was involved in shows at the Robson Square Media Centre and the BC Pavilion, as well as with a juried ...
News&Notes / BY: J. Pawlovich, MD March 2011
... services. Fraser Lake is located near the geo­graphic centre of BC. It is a dot along Highway 16 that meanders from Prince ... km away at the newly named University Hospital of Northern BC in Prince George.  In 2002 Fraser Lake developed a rural ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jack Teng, PhD, April 2011
... a human incidence rate of less than 0.1/100000 in all of BC.[ 3 ] However, there is in­creasing public concern and ... collected from humans for analysis at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC), resulting in the ... their main disease host for the presence of pathogens. In BC, tick-borne patho­gens are maintained in the environment ...
Clinical Articles May 2011
... General Hospital and the Biochemical Diseases Clinic at BC Children’s Hospital introduce us to the manifestations ... and specialty reports to: Division of Biochemical Diseases BC Children’s Hospital, Room K3-205 4480 Oak Street, ... Clinic Vancouver General Hospital, Diamond Health Care Centre, 4th floor 2775 Laurel Street, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9 ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC May 2011
... 2011, 45 cases were reported by physicians throughout BC, including at least three deaths.  Historically, ... at its borders contains levamisole.[ 7 ] Public Health in BC continues to receive reports of agranulocytosis related to ... a standard case re­port form, which is collated at the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC), and review of data from ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brian Evoy, PhD, May 2011
... Board. The number of divisions of family practice in BC continues to grow, with four now representing communities ... desire to develop solutions that put the patient at the centre. The East Kootenay Division is looking forward to the ...
Letters / BY: Stephen D. Anderson, MD, FRCPC May 2011
... psy­chiatrists who work at the major trauma centre in BC, Vancouver General Hospital, we have some ...