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WorkSafeBC / BY: Steve Martin, MD, CCFP, MScOH, FCBOM, DipSportMed March 2015
... or sport diving. This issue was highlighted in a BC Coroners Service report from December 2010 related to the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Amanzo A. Ho, BSc, April 2015
... and treatable with effective early screening.[ 2 ] Current BC guidelines recommend average-risk patients undergo fecal ... followed up with diagnostic colonoscopy within 8 weeks. In BC, population screening with FIT has placed increased demand ... then referred for colonoscopy or surgical intervention. In BC, public access to CTC requires specialist referral and is ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Patrick Tang, MD, PhD, April 2015
Every year approximately 300 people in BC are diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB) disease.[ 1 ] ... M. tuberculosis  as half of AFB-positive specimens in BC result from nontuberculous mycobacteria; thus samples must ... results usually takes 4 weeks or more to complete. At the BC Public Health Microbiology and Reference Laboratory, DNA ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Jeffrey R. Brubacher, MD, April 2015
... understanding of drug driving, we do know some facts. Many BC drivers use drugs Researchers have conducted regular roadside surveys for drug use in BC since 1995. Drivers are randomly selected and asked to ... comes from an ongoing study of injured drivers treated in BC trauma centres. The results from the first 1097 drivers ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB April 2015
... care, and over 6 years since the launch of the action, the BC government informed the plaintiffs that “thousands of ... is not the first false start. The laws being challenged in BC Supreme Court force BC patients to wait and suffer in pain, make private ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brenda Hefford, MD April 2015
... primary care and improving attachment rates in BC. As of 1 March 2015, 22 divisions of family practice have ...
Letters / BY: Alexander Boggie, MD April 2015
... there are approximately 10 963 practising physicians in BC. Such a discrepancy demonstrates apathy, or perhaps ...
Letters / BY: Bill Cavers, MD April 2015
... and for our patients. —Bill Cavers, MD Doctors of BC President Letters Apathy: Dr Cavers replies ...
Letters / BY: Denise McLeod, MD, April 2015
... that represents more than half of all physicians in BC, the British Columbia College of Family Physicians (BCCFP) ... article points out, when compared to Canadian averages, BC family physicians are more likely to be paid primarily ... in the provision of primary care in the context of BC. Experiences in other provinces using care models that ...
News&Notes April 2015
... affiliated with several organizations, including the BC Cancer Agency and Simon Fraser University, is featured in ... program, visit  www.roadmapepigenomics.org . News&Notes BC researchers unravel health/disease map ...