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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC June 2012
... timely administration of naloxone, an opioid antagonist.[ 5 ] In BC, the current lack of naloxone availability outside ... for anyone who may witness an opioid overdose.[ 5 ] Fourteen subpopulations have been identified at higher ...
Letters / BY: Andrew Farquhar, MD June 2012
...     Time: Thirty minutes per day.     Type: Aerobic 5/7, resistance 3/7. It helps if you are seen as someone who ...
Letters / BY: Leah Caldwell, June 2012
... bcma.org. The survey is brief and should take only 3 to 5 minute to complete. We thank Coast Hotels for providing the ...
News June 2012
... of 7 years. The BCMA was consulted twice in the last 5 years regarding these changes, and each time advocated to ...
News June 2012
... chro­nic disease sufferers in BC, and account for over $5.7 billion in direct health care costs every year in Canada. ...
News June 2012
... new medicines than the European Medicines Agency in all 5 years studied, and longer than the US Food and Drug ...
News&Notes / BY: Lila Yewchuk, MD, FRCPC, June 2012
... type 1 diabetes.[ 1 ] Its incidence is increasing by 3% to 5% annually, with the greatest rise occurring in children aged 5 to 9.[ 1 ] In Ontario alone, the incidence of T1D increased ... incidence is expected to double in children younger than 5 by 2020.[ 4 ]  The goal in diabetes management is to ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) June 2012
... medicine, ayurveda, chiropractic, and hom­eopathy.[ 5 ] In his article “Integrated medicine: Smuggling ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Hal D. Gunn, MD, June 2012
... the progression of early, low-grade prostate cancer.[ 5 ] •    Consumption of less meat, fat, re­fined ... is good for us and that smoking is not, but only 5% of cancer patients meet the minimal healthy lifestyle ... lung cancer were still alive, compared to only 4% and 5% in the BC and SEER standard survival curve, ...
President's Comment / BY: Nasir Jetha, MD, June 2012
... of the BCMA. The results in this area have improved by 5 percentage points from the 2010 survey (which had improved by 5 percentage points from the 2008 survey) to an 81% favorable ... survey, members primarily value the benefits packages (up 5 percentage points), insurance packages (up 2 percentage ...