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Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Afsaneh Moradi July/August 2018
... unwell is ubiquitous in popular culture. The reality in BC schools is much different—while health authorities ... clinic, the Nanaimo District Secondary School Wellness Centre in September 2016. Northern Interior Rural Barriers to ... Community Partnership and Integration, Doctors of BC Family Practice Services Committee Division-led school ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Grazia Salvo, MD July/August 2018
... of kratom exposure calls received from 2013–2017 at the BC Drug and Poison Information Centre (DPIC), extracting data from mandatory coded fields ... Leong, DPIC —Victoria Wan —Tom Kosatsky, MD, BCCDC BC Centre for Disease Control Has kratom come to BC? ...
News September 2018
The BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) and Simon Fraser University conducted research in ... illnesses may happen. Researchers on the study—from the BC-CfE, SFU, and the Public Health Agency of Canada, in ...
News September 2018
... for COPD, the leading cause of hospital admissions in BC and Canada. Hackett, who is also a principal investigator at St. Paul’s Hospital Centre for Heart Lung Innovation (HLI), and her research team ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Fahra Rajabali, MSc September 2018
... death among Canadians of all ages.[ 1 , 2 ] Every year in BC approximately 2000 deaths and 8000 cases of permanent ... the extent of the injury issue.[ 2 ] Injury costs in BC in 2010 amounted to $3.7 billion in both direct and ... to 2013 is the Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Centre of British Columbia.[ 17 ] The centre provides ...
Shared Care Committee / BY: Nancy Falconer, September 2018
Pregnant women in some BC communities can face fragmented and siloed perinatal care, ... network—one that puts patients’ needs at the centre while improving the working environment and ... work of the GPSC, the Rural Coordination Centre of BC, and Perinatal Services BC. Called the Maternity Network, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Patricia Caddy, MD October 2018
... sharply rising number of deaths related to fentanyl led BC’s provincial health officer to declare an “opioid ... therapy for the management of opioid use disorder in BC.[ 2 ] Suboxone prescribing resource A resource designed to ... Use Disorder [ 2 ] published by the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use and the BC Ministry of Health, as ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Lindsay M. Lawson, MD October 2018
... and sent home to do their own hemodialysis, the first in BC. By the end of the 1970s, the division had expanded to ... very successful, doubling the transplantation rate in BC in 3 months and tripling it in the first year. St. ... seed that Angus planted in 1968 has grown into a leading centre for the treatment of kidney disease across the land, ...
News October 2018
Researchers at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) and Simon Fraser University, in partnership with the ...
News November 2018
The BC Children’s Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre has launched a new website so families and health ... supports, created by trusted health experts at BC Children’s Hospital. Kelty also launched a new Instagram ...