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Clinical Articles / BY: Jerry C. Chen, MD, FRCSC October 2017
... Canada, some of these plant-based drugs are sold as vein health supplements in the natural health section of pharmacies or health supplement specialty stores. Although generally ...
News&Notes December 2017
... Bri­tish Columbia is on the cusp of great change. Rural health care has met the information technology age and things ... between the au­thor and a strongly supportive Northern Health Authority. It was a proposal that articulated the need to bring echocardiograms into a rural health care facility away from the regional centres. The idea ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Agatha Jassem, PhD, (D)ABMM, FCCM December 2017
... Since 2009, the BC Centre for Disease Control Public Health Laboratory (BCCDC PHL), which performs most of the HIV ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Troy Grennan, MD, DTM&H, MSc, FRCPC November 2017
... the last several years. One of the most urgent STI public health issues is the emergence of antimicrobial resistance ...
Editorials / BY: Anne I. Clarke, MD December 2017
... politician from the opposition party decried the state of health care, with foreign doctors endangering the lives of ... might leave! She wanted to tell me how much support I had. Health care was a political plaything here, she said, and ...
Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2017
... a year for a charitable organization called International Health Services, which worked on innovative health care solutions for underserviced populations—malaria ... the people who are going to retire. Is there a particular health care issue that you think needs more attention right ...
Letters / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC December 2017
... US Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) in 2004. However, Health Canada still allows its use with restriction less than ... that proposed by US FDA in 1997, some 20 years earlier. Health Canada should provide a higher standard of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kendall Ho, MD, FRCPC December 2017
... using consumer electronics to take ownership of personal health and wellness. A 2015 survey found that 66% of ... and older want to use mobile technologies to improve their health by receiving medication reminders and tracking diet ... 1 ]  How is this growing phenomenon going to affect health service delivery? More importantly, will personal ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Damon Ramsey, MD December 2017
... the terms electronic medical record (EMR) and electronic health record (EHR) can be used interchangeably, we have used ... to go beyond the medical and address the broader total health of a patient. EHRs have largely fulfilled their duty ... evolving doctor-patient relationship is the collaborative health record (CHR), a way to improve communication and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael Bidu, MBA December 2017
... I would be in the business of making other people’s health better. But that changed when I met Dr Eric Topol,[ 1 ] a cardiologist, geneticist, and digital health researcher at the Scripps Translational Science ... in April 2009 persuaded me that technology can transform health care.  Although I am a technology entrepreneur and ...