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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 ...
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 ... Robertson, manager of multimedia and telehealth at the BC Cancer Agency, who won the Health Care Hero award (Gold ...
News September 2012
The BC Cancer Agency Centre for the North, slated to open later ... year in Prince George, will give residents in northern BC the opportunity to re­ceive radiation therapy in their ... will be the sixth regional cancer centre operated by the BC Cancer Agency, an agency of the Provincial Health Services ...
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 ...
Obituaries / BY: J.E. Albrecht, MD September 2012
... from Lord Tweedsmuir High School, the Uni­versity of BC beckoned. He graduated with a medical degree in 1959. At ...
President's Comment / BY: Shelley Ross, MD September 2012
... authorities, patients, media, organizations such as the BC Automobile Association (where we were most successful in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Zena L. Simces, MA, October 2012
... for their patients—Dietitian Services at HealthLink BC and the Physical Activity Line (PAL).  Summary Once ...
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 ... Canada (CIC), evaluated TB incidence in people entering BC between 2004 and 2010. A total of 324 TB cases were ...
College Library / BY: Karen MacDonell, PhD, MLIS October 2012
... in full text at no cost to all health professionals in BC through the licensing efforts of the library consortium Electronic Health Library of BC (EHLBC). The College of Physicians and Surgeons is a ... the Library of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC and has not been peer reviewed by the  BCMJ  Editorial ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Karen Wanger, MDCM, FRCPC, FACEP, October 2012
... and resuscitative care in the out-of-hospital setting. BC’s Emergency and Health Services Commission employs full- and part-time physicians who work closely with BC Ambulance Service Operations in decision making and ...