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News May 2013
... research project ever conducted in the Vancouver Island Health Authority has received $10 million in funding from Genome BC, Genome Canada, the Vancouver Island Health Authority, and other partners. Re­searchers led by Dr ...
News May 2013
Regional health authorities in Bri­tish Columbia will receive up to ... hospital emergency admissions. In the Vancouver Coastal Health region, one of the initial pilot sites, the program ...
President's Comment / BY: Shelley Ross, MD May 2013
... to better treat patients and make the best use of health care dollars. My traveling is almost done, and I will ...
Specialist Services Committee / BY: Ken Hughes, MD, May 2013
... care.   We were part of a team of BC specialists and health care executives who traveled to the world-renowned, ... medical visit” in BC), many patients with similar health conditions attend an appointment together. They each ... Learning about and sharing relevant best practices in health care is an important focus. It is through this kind of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Paul J. Yong, MD, PhD, FRCSC June 2013
... women, CPP has a major impact on women’s health.[ 1-4 ] While endometriosis is the most common ... Pain and Endometriosis was launched to provide integrated health services and undertake research.  Development of the ... provided by two gynecologists at BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre. Over time it has become evident that increased ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Mel Krajden, OBC, MD, FRCPC June 2013
... costs of untreated HCV, a strategic and proactive public health response is required to eradicate HCV-related ... multiple comorbid conditions including addictions, mental health, and social vulnerabilities, and are also at risk of ... and access to care for these patients.  From a public health perspective, this group is an important priority ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Michael A Benusic, UBC Medical Class of 2014, June 2013
... surrounding fracking lies in the largely unknown health effects, particularly given the potential for drinking ... and anecdotal evidence of already-present deleterious health outcomes have led to precautionary bans in the Sacred ... results of these comprehensive analyses, the Environmental Health Committee has created the following outline of the ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD June 2013
... renal cysts, colonic stool content, and fatty livers? The health authority in which I toil is adopting a new program ... have this access they will be more engaged in their health management and more likely to make good health and lifestyle choices. Initially patients will have ...
Editorials / BY: Willem R. Vroom, MD June 2013
... on 1 April 2014 will be handed the spoils of the failed Health Canada Marijuana Medical Access Regulations (MMAR) ... have resulted in a rethink of the MMAR program by Health Canada. Under the newly proposed ... or possibly a nurse practitioner. No more applications to Health Canada because of course you, the physician, are ...
Letters / BY: Jonathan Gravel, MSc, June 2013
I applaud the author of the article “Health Canada licenses homeopathic vaccines” [ BCMJ ... As published by both WHO and Canada’s own Public Health Agen­cy of Canada, population levels of child ... We live in a country with, argu­ably, some of the best health care service delivery in the world. Not to mention the ...