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News January/February 2012
... in the previous 18 months. The new fee came into effect 1 January 2012. A new fee code (10029) for Rotarix (oral ... in the same visit). Both fee codes are ret­roactive to 1 April 2011. Please see the SGP website for more details. ...
News January/February 2012
... are cancelled. In place of these cancelled fees, effective 1 January 2012, physicians can now use one fee code for ...
News / BY: Sinden Luciuk, January/February 2012
... contact your noncommissioned BCMA insurance advisor at 1 800 665-2262, or e-mail  jkwan@bcma.bc.ca  or ...
News January/February 2012
...  or by phone at 604 736-5551 in Vancouver or toll free at 1 800 665-2262. News Save the date: BCMA Annual Convention ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Kukuh Noertjojo, MD, January/February 2012
... months. Close to 12% of the population is disabled by LBP[ 1,2 ] and its lifetime prevalence is as high as 84%, whereas ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nevio Cimolai, MD, FRCPC March 2012
... outcomes and has concerned researchers for many years.[ 1 ] While there is a general perception that antibiotic use ... 93 cases (82.8%) the parents were im­migrants.  Table 1  lists the countries of origin for all immigrant ... Control reported for two similar time periods in 2010: for 1 September to 1 October 51% of viral isolates were possibly ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS March 2012
... most common cause of cancer-related death in nonsmokers.[ 1 ]  The lifetime risk of colorectal cancer is 5%, with an ... of colorectal cancer at the Vernon Jubilee Hospital over a 1-year period, 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2010, were examined. This period ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michelle Horn, BA, March 2012
... increased from 9694 in 1996 to 259 376 in 2006,[ 1 ] and a growing body of literature demonstrates that this ... to cause extrapyramidal symptoms and tardive dyskinesia.[ 1 , 8 , 9 ] While a decreased risk of these side effects has ... weight gain, diabetes, hyperlipidemia and hypertension,[ 1 ] and metabolic syndrome[ 10 ] have been reported in adults ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Travis Hottes, MSc, March 2012
... treat  Neisseria gonorrhoeae  due to drug resistance.[ 1 ] Data from BC and elsewhere globally now warn against ... as highlighted above, co-treatment with azithro­mycin 1 g PO (single dose) is recommended for all gonorrhea ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC March 2012
... are the leading criminal cause of death in Canada.[ 1 ] It was estimated that in 2009, 976 people died in ... alcohol related.[ 2 ] The BC road fatality rate in 2009 (8.1 per 100000 people), was above the national average (7.3) ... annually in alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes. From 1 October 2010 to 30 September 2011, there were 68 ...