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News September 2016
... one of the negotiated benefits administered by Doctors of BC. In addition to pregnancy benefits for female physicians, ...
News March 2016
Scientists at the BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver Coastal Health Research ... that the right approach to SEO cancers is being taken in BC, where SEO cancer patients have generally been treated ... Researchers in the Department of Molecular Oncology at the BC Cancer Agency are now investigating whether the initial ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Kathleen Cadenhead, MD May 2016
... for health promotion and disease prevention. Resources for BC physicians and patients •    Dietitian services at HealthLink BC ( www.healthlinkbc.ca  or 8-1-1). •    MEND (mind, ... nutrition, do it) and Shapedown programs throughout BC. •    SCOPE’s Live 5-2-1-0 program ( ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: David M. Patrick, MD, FRCPC, MHSc November 2016
... to be the case for the Do Bugs Need Drugs? program in BC. The World Health Organization and the Public Health ... populations are prescribed in the community. In 2005 the BC Ministry of Health funded Do Bugs Need Drugs?, a program ... prescribing is associated with a reduction in costs for BC. Over the first 10 years of the program, the annual cost ...
Letters / BY: Anne Wachsmuth, MD July/August 2016
In the recent Doctors of BC 2016–17 election for president-elect, less than 30% of ...
Letters / BY: Scott D. Smith, MD, CCFP, MSc September 2016
... of hospital medicine (a.k.a., hospitalist programs) in BC. It also included a number of misleading statements. For ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Michael L. Rekart, MD, DTM&H, MHSc December 2016
... revision. —Michael L. Rekart, MD, DTM&H, MHSc, FRCPC BC Centre for Disease Control BC Centre for Disease Control Doxycycline: "New" treatment of ...
Letters / BY: Andy Hamilton, MD, January/February 2016
... a well-researched article on the state of wait lists in BC [ BCMJ  2015;57:341-348 ]. However, the data from the ... Summerland Letters Re: Wait times for general surgery in BC ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM December 2016
... mayonii -like spirochetes have now also been discovered in BC—first detected in an Ixodes angustus female nymph that ... tick was removed from a child in the central Interior of BC in July 2016. The third infected tick was recovered from a ... DVM —Bonnie Henry, MD, FRCPC —Mel Krajden MD, FRCPC BC Centre for Disease Control A new Borrelia species ...
Letters / BY: David R. Richardson, MD May 2016
... Board should remain at arm’s length from the Doctors of BC Board. After input and support from the Governance ... put forward to and accepted by the Board of Doctors of BC. We continue to review ways to maintain the journal’s ... Board members. —ED. Letters Term limits for Doctors of BC committees. The editor replies ...