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Clinical Articles / BY: Tiffany Chan, MD, MHsc March 2017
... Clinical Research Ethics Board and the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute. All deceased-donor liver ... of all cases. Despite limitations inherent when comparing health care systems and patient populations, a comparison of ...
News April 2017
Researchers from McGill University and Health Canada have found that air pollution from wood burning ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD June 2017
... work on coffee or lunch breaks? My bias is for unforeseen health and societal complications to arise from the decision ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Tommy Gerschman, MD, FRCPC, MSc September 2017
... ministerial mandate letter to the Canadian Minister of Health was to raise awareness about the treatment of concussions.[ 1 ] The Public Health Agency of Canada was given a 2-year budget of $1.4 ... these steps for players, parents, coaches, teachers, and health care professionals.[ 5 ] The greatest risk for having ...
News / BY: Gabrielle Lynch-Staunton, BFA, BEd November 2017
... is critical at this time in the evolution of our health care system. Without physicians engaging with health care issues, speaking up, and sharing their ideas, Canadians will lose key knowledge that will drive health care over the next decade. Dr Janice Stein, a renowned ...
News / BY: Rory Sutherland, UBC MD Candidate, Class of 2019 March 2017
... province. The SAVE BC program is aimed at a major public health challenge caused by a high burden of premature AsCVD ... community and to agencies and ministries involved in health care within BC. •    The family-based nature of ...
News May 2017
Guidelines The Ministry of Health has created two new guidelines (one for adults and one ... of substance use on an individual’s physical and mental health, social support circle, and spiritual or moral values. ... Island. The contracted providers are managed by BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services, an agency of the ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Michelle Murti, MD, FRCPC October 2017
... and advising patients, physicians need to be aware of the health risks associated with cannabis edibles. Edible ... edibles.  —Michelle Murti, MD, FRCPC Council on Health Promotion Pediatric presentations and risks from ...
Letters / BY: Andre C. Piver, MD, FCFP December 2017
... with colleagues and continued to interact with the mental health system as a practising GP with special interest. I ...
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 ...