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News September 2012
BC’s new Child & Family Research Imaging Facility is a ... Provincial Health Services Au­thority on the campus of BC Children’s Hospital, BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre, and BC Mental Health and Addictions Research ...
News September 2012
... has received five awards at the 2012 Excellence in BC Health Care Awards—three Gold Apple awards and two ... em­ployees and reward innovation and best practices by BC’s publicly funded health care providers.  The winners ... at BC Cancer Agency/Children’s & Wo­men’s Health Centre, and Dennis Schweers, biomedical engineer at BC Cancer ...
News September 2012
The BC Cancer Agency Centre for the North, slated to open later this year in Prince George, will give residents in northern BC the opportunity to re­ceive radiation therapy in their ... patients per year, it will be the sixth regional cancer centre operated by the BC Cancer Agency, an agency of the ...
News&Notes / BY: Gerd A. Asche, MD September 2012
... me with news of a plane crash on the Fraser River. BC artist Toni Onley had gone down while practising “touch ... it. The eccentric location of the heavy engine places the centre of gravity in a high, critical spot outside of the ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: David Roth, MSc, October 2012
... of migrants from high-burden countries.  In 2010 BC accepted the third most immigrants of any province,[ 2 ] ... such as Southeast Asia and the western Pacific. In 2010 BC had the second highest TB incidence in Canada, with 72% of ... Cook, MD, FRCPC This article is the opinion of the BC Centre for Disease Control and has not been peer reviewed by ...
Letters / BY: Charles Webb, MBChB October 2012
A score of BCMA directors and several staff formed the BC delegation to the Canadian Medical Association annual ... secondary schools doubled nicely as a conference centre and lunch venue, as did its sports multiplex, which ... resolutions, about a third of which were contri­buted by BC. Subjects included the environment (DM 5-32, 5-33, 5-34) ...
News October 2012
... machines at the new Sadie Diamond Breast Health Imaging Centre at BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre are providing BC women with 3D mammograms for the first time. The new ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sol Gregory, MD, November 2012
... complex burn care.[ 9 ] Management of major burn trauma in BC In British Columbia major burn care is delivered in two ... (VIHA) and handles select provincial referrals. The BC Professional Fire Fighters’ Burn, Plastic and Trauma ... General Hospital (VGH) serves as the quaternary referral centre for major burn trauma for the province. Primary burn ...
News November 2012
The Centre for Clinical Diagnostic Genomics at the Provincial ... timely therapy decisions. The project was funded by Genome BC and the Provincial Health Services Authority, with each ...
Obituaries / BY: Brian Warriner, MD, November 2012
... at the West Coast General Hospital in Port Alberni, BC, and was the founder of that department. She joined the ... Anesthesia Research and the Jean Templeton Hugill Research Centre at UBC are named in her memory. Jean was a mentor to ...