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Obituaries / BY: David Harder, MD, July/August 2012
... Huntington disease genetic mutation, resulting in gradual health-related changes that after 16 years took his life. He ...
Obituaries / BY: Richard K. Elwood, MB, BCh, MRCP(UK), FRCPC July/August 2012
... as the head of the Virology Laboratory at the Provincial Health Laboratory and subsequently at the BC Centre for ...
President's Comment / BY: Shelley Ross, MD July/August 2012
... care, and this has initiated changes in how we deliver health care. Programs such as the General Practice Services ... upon us—such as expanding scopes of practice for allied health care professionals such as pharmacists, naturopaths, ... midwives, nurse practitioners, and (if the Minster of Health has his way) nurse anesthetists—should be looked at ...
Proust for Physicians / BY: Marshall Dahl, MD, PhD, FRCPC July/August 2012
... Couillard, the neurosurgeon who was Quebec Minister of Health. He gave the best rational review of international health systems that I have heard, and did it with a ... most anticipate? The true universal integrated accessible health record. What is your most marked characteristic? I ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Sterling Haynes, MD July/August 2012
... was that abortions could be done where the life or the health of the pregnant woman was in jeopardy. At the Royal ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Nancy McLachlan, July/August 2012
... at WorkSafeBC.com. Click on Custom­er Centre for Health Care Providers, and then Mental Health Services. —Nancy McLachlan WorkSafeBC Manager ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sophia Wong, MD, FRCPC September 2012
... Institute (a division of the Na­tional Institutes of Health, which was renamed the National Heart, Lung, and Blood ... HDL-C levels. Nevertheless, it was adopted by the World Health Organization as an international standard in 1972,[ 25 ... by way of cholesterol lowering, the National Institutes of Health launched the National Cholesterol Education Program ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM September 2012
... analysis using a Markov model to estimate age-specific health benefits and cost savings for women aged 12 to 50 ... of pro­viders, including physicians, pharmacists, sexual health and youth clinics, and college/university student health services. Public health nurses offer immunization in ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP September 2012
... childhood obesity.  The latest evidence from the Canadian Health Measures Survey indicates that only 7% of Canadian ... know) all of this. So what do we do about it? The Public Health Agency of Canada has created a  report  entitled ... ad­dress this complex problem, including public, private, health professional, and nongovernmental sectors.  Although ...
Editorials / BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG September 2012
... to a large extent, offset by coverage from the Ministry of Health, but in 1988 the Vander Zalm provincial government ... site, by now transformed into BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre. The program’s members then had their first ...