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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Michael A Benusic, UBC Medical Class of 2014, June 2013
... and Delaware. Yet while some areas are banning fracking, BC is allowing it to boom—to the tune of 7300 wells fracked ... to precautionary bans in the Sacred Headwaters region of BC and reviews at both the provincial and federal level. ... These exist about 2 kilometres below the surface in BC, with the majority of deposits in the Montney Basin near ...
Letters / BY: Andy Hamilton, MD, June 2013
... and challenges of the role of a department head in BC [Who wants to be a department head?  BCMJ  2013;55:134 ...
News June 2013
... team is led by Dr Poul Sorensen, senior scientist at the BC Cancer Agency Research Centre and scientist at the Child and Family Research Institute at BC Children’s Hospital (BCCH).  The Vancouver team has ... the University of Wisconsin. Vancouver researchers at the BC Cancer Agency are performing additional genetic sequencing ...
News June 2013
... department and a Distinguished Scientist at the BC Cancer Agency, is one of more than 600 scientists around ...
News June 2013
... group primarily staffed by UBC personnel.  The BC government suspended funding to the initiative in October ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hans Krueger, PhD, July/August 2013
... of screening The cervical cancer screening program in BC has existed for many years and predates the collection of ... holds that the low rate of cervical cancers in younger BC women indicates the effectiveness of the screening program ... cases per 100 000 compared with 1.35 cases per 100 000 in BC, despite similar HPV infection rates in both ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Lorraine McIntyre, MSc July/August 2013
... we be concerned about commercially harvested shellfish in BC? Definitely. Three separate outbreaks of shellfish ... sought care in hospital emergency departments. Thus far in BC, marine biotoxin illnesses have been limited to paralytic ... the last 30 years have impacted commercial shellfish in BC. Although shellfish are generally tested for marine toxins ...
Letters / BY: Ann Zanbilowicz, MA, July/August 2013
... was actually the staff member. I am also concerned that BC has the highest use of drugs as a form of restraint. As ... comment is about urinary incontinence in long-term care in BC. Many people entering a facility in our province are put ... fact that there are no minimal standards for bathing in BC, the cost in skin care and dignity is very high. —Ann ...
Letters / BY: Geraldine Vance, APR, July/August 2013
... regarding the clinical services proposals made by the BC Pharmacy Association in March of this year [ ... of the clinical services we believe should be adopted in BC, all are operating successfully in other provinces or ... has diaper rash or mosquito bites. —Geraldine Vance CEO, BC Pharmacy Association Letters Re: Pharmacists ...
Letters / BY: David R. Richardson, MD July/August 2013
... taking the time to respond to my editorial regarding the BC Pharmacy Association’s proposals to government. We both ...