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Letters / BY: Jefferson Terry, MD PhD, FRCPC April 2022
... in the journal [ BCMJ 2021;63:383-387 ]. The practice at BC Children’s and BC Women’s Hospitals is to sample for bacteria from areas ... or pregnancy loss in general, is not routinely done at our centre. If I were to test a clinical sample for Mycoplasma or ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Jason Wong, MD, MPH, CCFP, FRCPC December 2022
... In 2021, 1428 infectious syphilis cases were reported in BC (27.5 per 100 000 population, the highest on record in ... Following zero reported cases of congenital syphilis in BC between 2014 and 2018, 12 cases of congenital syphilis, ... Laboratory —Troy Grennan, MD, DTM&H, MSc, FRCPC BCCDC BC Centre for Disease Control The changing epidemiology of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sahil Kumar, MSc January/February 2022
... transition. In September 2019, the Gender Surgery Program BC, located within Vancouver Coastal Health, became Western Canada’s first and only centre to perform lower body gender-affirming surgeries for ... close to home. In addition to the Gender Surgery Program BC, Trans Care BC has established a network of ...
Letters / BY: Brian Conway, MD, FRCPC July/August 2022
... distribution of adult infectious diseases services in BC. I am the medical director of the Vancouver Infectious Diseases Centre in downtown Vancouver. Our three physicians and three ... are often disengaged from care. Our team congratulates the BC Medical Journal for highlighting the importance of the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Patrick H.P. Wong, MD, FRCPC June 2022
... Indigenous people, and people who inject drugs.[ 4 ] In BC, local epidemiology is driven primarily by a large ... is not attributable to sharing utensils.[ 7 ] In BC, most chronic hepatitis B cases are among East and South ... vaccinated if they screen negative for HBV.[ 12 ] The BC Centre for Disease Control Communicable Disease Control ...
Obituaries / BY: David M. Lawson, PhD, RPsych September 2022
... clinical support for much of the early research of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. Her name appears as a ... of the then-BCMA, served on the Editorial Board of the BC Medical Journal (1994–2011), and was an examiner for the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jefferson Terry, MD PhD, FRCPC November 2021
... in perinatal AFII autopsies has not been assessed in BC. The purpose of this quality improvement study is to ... the Anatomical Pathology laboratory information system of BC Children’s Hospital and BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre (C&W). C&W is the provincial referral centre for ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Lise Leveille, MD, MHSc June 2021
... of delay was previously documented at another Canadian centre, where mean time from injury to ACL reconstruction was ... received a clinical research stimulus award from the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute to help cover ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Tiffany Wong, MD, FRCPC September 2021
... measures. Methods Context This was a prospective, single-centre quality improvement study of drug allergy labeling in ... Specialist Services Committee, a partnership of Doctors of BC and the BC Ministry of Health, provided funding for time and project ...
President's Comment, COVID-19 / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD January/February 2021
... administered in record time. Physicians were front and centre in that effort, from planning to execution. And we ... leaders. Women are leading our pandemic response from the BC Provincial Health Office to the Public Health Agency of ... hope and optimism.  —Matthew C. Chow, MD Doctors of BC President President's Comment COVID-19 Looking to 2021 ...