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Clinical Articles / BY: Keith G. Dawson, MD, PhD, FRCPC November 2018
... as the most significant social determinant of health.[ 3 , 4 ] Other social determinants affecting diabetes in First ... in Canada, offering only restricted coverage for two DPP-4 agents, and no coverage for GLP-1s. BC is also the only ...
Clinical Articles / BY: C. Bruce Verchere, PhD November 2018
... disease and have limited therapeutic options. With 1.4 million people impacted by prediabetes or diabetes in ... eventual therapeutic application of dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors,[ 3 ] today a widely used class of type 2 ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Erin Fraser, DVM, MSc November 2018
... clinical signs and symptoms, which often appear 1 to 4 weeks after infection, can include fatigue, nausea, and ... people and their pets. Baylisascaris eggs take from 2 to 4 weeks to become infectious and can remain viable in the ... household hygiene when latrines and raccoons are present.[ 4 ] —Erin Fraser, DVM, MSc Public Health Veterinarian, ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: David A. McVea, MD, PhD November 2018
... wet springs that promote mosquito breeding and feeding.[ 4 ] Though incidence of West Nile virus has been low in BC, ...
News December 2018
... labor was about 6% at the 6-month interval, compared to 3.4% at the 18-month interval. Although the causes of poor ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Gabrielle Lynch-Staunton, BFA, BEd December 2018
... discovered he enjoyed working night shifts—working 3 or 4 nights in a row was easier than working the occasional ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Matt Kurrek, MD, FRCPC December 2018
... methadone, morphine, oxycodone, and sufentanil.[ 4 ] In 2009 the CMPA reported on 49 medicolegal cases ... or morphine plus propofol and achieving a median score of 4 on the Ramsay sedation scale. In the unblinded capnography ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Andy Jiang, BSc December 2018
... opioid and illicit drug deaths totaling 993 in 2016[ 4 ] and representing roughly one-third of the 2861 ... 2017, with 1452 deaths in BC from illicit drug poisoning.[ 4 ] Though “overdose” is commonly used interchangeably ... unintentional poisoning hospitalizations increased from 31.4 to 35.9 per 100 000 ( P = .04) from 2008 to 2013, ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Andrea McNeill, BScOT, BA Psych, OT(C) December 2018
... new traumatic brain injury (TBI) claims, of which 98.4% were diagnosed as a mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI). ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: David Unger, MD December 2018
... with physicians through the Prescription Review Program[ 4 ] to ensure prescribing patterns are consistent with the ...