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President's Comment / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC June 2024
... able to decrease wait times by almost 70%, or 75 days![ 2 ] The Specialist Services Committee also created new fee ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Natasha Benson, MD, FRCPC September 2024
... urine, saliva, genital secretions, or other body fluids.[ 2 ] In otherwise healthy children and adults, including ... and long-term follow-up with multidisciplinary teams.[ 2 ] Cytomegalovirus is the most common congenital infection ... affecting approximately 1 in 150 to 240 live births.[ 2-4 ] Infants with congenital cytomegalovirus face varying ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC November 2024
... 650 000 Canadians served, and 66 000 lost their lives.[ 2 ] It is estimated that over 16.5 million people died ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Sarah B. Henderson, PhD April 2024
... a complex mixture of gases and fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ), all of which can affect health.[ 1 ] However, concentrations of PM 2.5 are typically used as a proxy for the whole mixture, for a few reasons. First, PM 2.5 is the ambient air pollutant most consistently elevated ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Caroline Mariano, MD July/August 2024
... practices, which creates a detrimental feedback loop. [ 2 ] The health care sector contributes approximately 5% of ... fossil fuel heating systems and anesthetic gases. Scope 2 includes indirect emissions from energy ... in the available data, the amount of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions saved by eliminating the use of table paper was ...
Premise / BY: Khushi Dabla, BSc October 2024
... strategies for engaging young adults on these platforms.[ 2 , 3 ] We present a detailed methodological framework in the ... consumption and overdose prevention sites [ Figure 2 ] . Educational posts Create infographics or TikToks/reels ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC December 2024
... light, I paused to consider the culture I was supporting.[ 2 ] After learning of the lack of leadership, transparency, ...
Letters / BY: Robert Shepherd, MD January/February 2024
... have complex cognitive and emotional lives.[ 1 ] I agree.[ 2 ] There are also environmental and health reasons to eat ...
President's Comment / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC May 2024
... as hospital beds and health human resources. Canada has 2.6 hospital beds for every 1000 people, which is behind ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Amber Sawkins, MSW, RSW July/August 2024
... are available after a critical incident at work For over 2 decades, WorkSafeBC has offered critical incident ...