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News October 2016
The Reference Drug Program (RDP) will be modernized as of 1 December 2016, and associated information packages were ... If you did not receive a package call Health Insurance BC (1 866 905-4912) to request a print copy, or access the ... those patients to a fully covered reference drug before 1 December 2016. In September, Pharmacare sent letters to all ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marla Kiess, MD, FRCPC September 2016
... clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore in 1930[ 1 ] and the publication of Dr Maude Abbott’s incredible ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Jeffrey R. Brubacher, MD, April 2015
... survey (2012), 8.3% of drivers had been drinking and 10.1% had used at least one drug. Cannabis was found in 5.4% of drivers, cocaine in 4.1%, amphetamines in 1.7%, opiates in 1.1%, and benzodiazepines in 0.1%.[ 1 ] ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: L. Zibrik, MA, July/August 2015
... significant and measurable health outcome improvements.[ 1 ] However, cultural minorities can be disadvantaged in ... chronic disease prevention and self-management (e.g., 8-1-1 HealthLinkBC, health apps, and the myehealth.ca portal). ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Bruce Hobson, MD November 2015
... objectives and uses specific learning resources.[ 1 ] This teaching style requires learners to participate in ... education model accommodates natural learning styles[ 1 ] and focuses on facilitation of learning. Each local ... experiences. During July and August, 16 family physicians, 1 nurse, and 16 MOAs participated in four small-group ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lauri McCoy MD, CFPC January/February 2015
... have difficulty accepting the diagnosis of dementia.[ 1 ] As physicians, we need to be sensitive to understanding ...
Editorials / BY: Susan E. Haigh, MD May 2015
... generation. Worldwide (again from WHO statistics) in 2014, 1.9 billion adults over age 18 were overweight and 600 ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Brad Fritz, MD September 2015
... care program in British Columbia, was recognized on 1 September 2015. But long before any government was prepared ... for an adequate system of insurance against sickness.”[ 1 ] Subsequent governments did not act on the commission’s ... British Columbia entered the federal medicare program on 1 July 1968. Saskatchewan was the only other province to join ...
News March 2015
... the survey, contact the Canadian Heart Research Centre at 1 800 725-6585, ext. 229, or via e-mail at cmeinfo@chrc.net . ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: John Hamilton, MD, July/August 2015
... that springs from a unified response among participants.[ 1 ] In British Columbia, collaboration between physicians, ...