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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: K. Pielak, RN, MSN May 2005
A key strategy for controlling communicable disease in British Columbia is the immunization of children and ... two new programs will be introduced to protect children in British Columbia against varicella-zoster virus: •  ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Angus Rae, MB, FRCPC September 2005
... as policymakers, became established over the years and in British Columbia they are given the courtesy title of ...
Letters / BY: Lynn Moran July/August 2005
... barriers also impede access to health care. In today’s British Columbia, where over one million people are ...
Editorials / BY: Heidi M. Oetter, MD December 2005
... a discussion paper from the Health Officer’s Council of British Columbia entitled A  Public Health Approach to Drug ...
News / BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS March 2005
... series of stories from Dr Haynes’s experiences as a British Colonial Officer in Nigeria and from his 7 years’ ... resource on birds that inhabit the coastal areas of British Columbia. This book is a “must have” for ...
Interviews / BY: Michael Golbey, MD September 2005
... to ensure that people operate in both systems—and in the British system they do that. Their top surgeons in the ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Duncan Robertson, MD, FRCP, FRCPC June 2005
... and health care costs. What can the doctors of British Columbia do to prevent falls? First, some important ... on falls prevention in American Geriatrics Society/British Geriatrics Society Guidelines, [1]   Prevention of ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB November 2005
... in allocating our own resources. In 1944, when an average British Columbia worker made 91 cents per hour, an ...
Letters / BY: John Sehmer, MD January/February 2005
... investigation”  suggest family physicians in British Columbia are undertreating osteoporosis. [1]  They ... Osteoporosis Society of Canada. All family physicians in British Columbia recently received a large binder containing ... the “Guidelines and Protocols for the Province of British Columbia” for many medical conditions. From my ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Gregory M.F. Ganz, MD, CM, FRCPC July/August 2005
... ongoing follow-up. With the current nephrology staffing in British Columbia, each nephrologist would have to see 10 new ... to cause serious morbidity and mortality to thousands of British Columbians. It may also result in millions of dollars ... our population suggests that between 140 000 and 200 000 British Columbians have chronic kidney disease—defined as a ...