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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Debra A. Kent, PharmD, DABAT, FAACT January/February 2013
Each year, over 25 000 poisonings are reported to the BC Drug and Poison Information Centre (DPIC) and nearly half of these involve children. In ... materials and resources are available by contacting the BC Drug and Poison Information Centre at www.dpic.org . ...
News January/February 2013
... across Canada to participate. The Vaccine Evaluation Centre at the Child & Family Research Institute at BC Children’s Hospital is recruiting 3609 participants from BC. Girls participating in the study will complete an annual ...
News January/February 2013
... across Canada to participate. The Vaccine Evaluation Centre at the Child & Family Research Institute at BC Children’s Hospital is recruiting 3609 participants from BC. Girls participating in the study will complete an annual ...
Obituaries / BY: Linda J. Warren, MD, January/February 2013
... and board member at VGH, and chief of family practice at BC Children’s Hospital and BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre. During his leadership as president of the Vancouver ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Marsha Taylor, MSc, March 2013
... labor, spontaneous abortion, or neonatal infection.  In BC, approximately 9% of infections between 2002 and 2012 were ... during pregnancy and the resources currently available in BC. Using their feedback, we developed resources consisting ... and help to decrease morbidity.  —Marsha Taylor, MSc BC Centre for Disease Control  —Meghan Kelly, MD, CCFP ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Graham A.A. Dodd, MSc, MD, CCFP(EM), MADEM March 2013
... months have seen a number of large earthquakes rock the BC coast. These seismic events should serve as a wake-up call ... earthquakes struck the more populous areas of the southern BC coast—where a significant quake has long been ... may not fit that description if it occurs in an urban centre.  The mill explosion in Burns Lake—an unexpected ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB March 2013
... Protection Act by six plaintiffs: the Cambie Surgery Centre, three children, and two cancer patients. The 2005 ... corporations expedite their care. Similar legislation in BC has been passed and awaits only proclamation to become ... sector is more cost effective than the public system. BC experience confirms this.  In a Newfoundland government ...
News March 2013
Lung cancer specialists at the BC Cancer Agency now have access to a three-dimensional ... diagnosis, staging, and care for lung cancer patients in BC. The equipment, funded by the BC Cancer Foundation, is the ... has been installed at the BC Cancer Agency’s Vancouver Centre.  The technology converts two-dimensional images from ...
News March 2013
... scans of 95 preterm infants born 8 to 16 weeks early at BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre between 2006 and 2009. Infants were scanned soon after ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Tyler W. Smith, MD, MHSc, FRCPC April 2013
... (the five-test panel costs $292.09 per patient in BC, based on the 2012 Medical Service Plan laboratory fee ... a formal assessment of HT test ordering by physicians in BC. We began by surveying academic hematologists and other ... Hospital (VGH), a tertiary care and academic referral centre, to assess the volume of provincial HT tests performed ...