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Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD April 2013
... in a few communities the program went province-wide 1 April. Funding is available for family physicians to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sophia Wong, MD, FRCPC September 2013
Type 1 diabetes mellitus, cystic fibrosis, and congenital ... disease that has a prevalence rate similar to that of type 1 diabetes and higher than that of cystic fibrosis and congenital hypothyroidism[ 1 , 2 ]—so often not recognized, leaving many affected ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) December 2013
... 10% to 15% of conventional medicine is evidence based[ 1 ] has taken hold not only in public but also in medical ... the informal comments of OTA epidemiologist Kerr White.[ 1 ] Dr White was referring to a 1963 insurance study that ... appropriately targeted to the condition being treated.[ 1 ] It was in this study that prescriptions were found ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Gary Mazowita, MD, March 2013
... disorders on the increase, especially among the elderly.[ 1 ] Within the residential care setting, the reported ... hypoglycemia cases requiring hospitalization are rare (1% of their sample). Less clear are the rates of hypoglycemia ...
News May 2013
MSP fees New MSP fees effective as of 1 April have now been implemented. This includes new fee ... services (A-lettered items) increased by 2% effective 1 April. These new fees are posted on the BCMA website at ... sessional rates have been increased by 0.5% effective 1 April 2013. The new rates are posted on the BCMA website at ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Zamil Karim, MD, FRCPC, October 2013
... bowel disease who are not taking corticosteroids,[ 1 , 2 ] the association of avascular necrosis and ... Methods A retrospective chart review was conducted from 1 September to 31 October 2010 at two teaching hospitals in ... The total award to the patient in 1992 was approximately $1 million.  Rhine v. Millan .[ 9 ] The patient who pursued ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Debra A. Kent, PharmD, DABAT, FAACT January/February 2013
... on 10 008 cases involving children less than 6 years old.1 While 95% developed no toxicity or only minimal symptoms, 99 cases (< 1%) had moderate or major outcomes.[ 1 ]  A recent review of poisonings in the US reported that ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD March 2013
... including asbestos-related claims, call Teleclaim at 1 888 WORKERS (1 888 967-5377), Monday to Friday, between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. ...
Letters / BY: Judith Hammond, July/August 2013
... for patients on this food fad,”  BCMJ  2013;55:161 ].[ 1 ] Although I do not doubt that faddism explains a large ... trial—2 weeks of capsules with wheat followed by 1 week of washout and then 2 weeks of capsules with xylose, ...
News November 2013
... as Prevention initiative was expanded province-wide 1 April 2013. The paper can be viewed at ...