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Beyond Medicine / BY: E.M. Wong, MD, CCFP, FCFP March 2020
... Ottawa, and Brampton. Rather than being discarded as medical waste after the natural process of delivery, cord ... Dr Tanya Petraszko, Canadian Blood Services associate medical director for Western Canada and medical director for ... all kindly provided editorial assistance for this article. Beyond Medicine Canadian Blood Services: More than ...
News May 2020
... Heart Association , a study led by Dr Elad Maor of Sheba Medical Center in Israel, in collaboration with the Mayo ... that it may have other applications as well. The Sheba Medical Center will begin a clinical trial based on this ... the voice can be used to identify respiratory disease. The article, “Vocal biomarker is associated with ...
News July/August 2020
... Moor-Smith The 2019 J.H. MacDermot Prize for Excellence in Medical Journalism: Best article or essay was awarded to Dr Moor-Smith for his article, “The world’s most poisonous mushroom, Amanita ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Lisa J. Zhang November 2020
... nature.[ 26 ] It has been associated with multiple medical comorbidities in offspring, including sudden infant ... in the review or decision making regarding this article. No competing interests have been declared. ABSTRACT: ... recommendations that optimize their fertility. This second article in a two-part series examines how exposure to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC September 2019
... 2018, 33 states permitted the use of marijuana for medical purposes and 10 of these had also decriminalized ... and Gynaecology Canada recently published a review article on the subject.[ 18 ] In it, the authors highlight ... member of the BCMJ Editorial Board, but was not when this article was accepted. ABSTRACT: Products of the Cannabis ...
Letters / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC May 2019
In the Jan/Feb BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) article [ BCMJ 2019;61:41 ], authors refer to an ayruvedic ... to contain toxic lead levels.[ 1 , 2 ] The BCCDC article serves as a reminder of the importance of inquiring ... identification may have saved many emergency room visits, medical visits, and extensive investigations in this ...
Premise / BY: Andre C. Piver, MD, FCFP June 2019
... relationship with the patient is supported by several medical studies that show that these skills can lead to ... but critical to being present with our patients. The article “Attention is not a resource but a way of being ... and personal connection makes a difference. A relevant article of value is “Learning narrative-based medicine ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Maxwell Moor-Smith, BSc January/February 2019
... Dr Daniel Ovakim for his assistance in developing this article. Dr Ovakim is affiliated with Critical Care Medicine at Island Health, and Medical Toxicology at the BC Drug and Poison Information ...
Letters / BY: Ian L. Mitchell, MD, FRCP April 2019
This article [ BCMJ 2019;61:14-19 ] would be the first in the ... and an exercise in futility.”[ 2 ] In Dr Ocana’s article, results are presented from a cohort interviewed ... this is magnified when it is published in a medical journal. The three most commonly held misbeliefs ...
News / BY: Jessie Wang March 2019
... , so I took an inventory of what’s free out there for medical students. I knew that my Doctors of BC membership is free during my 4 years of medical school, but I had forgotten that this includes a free ... to win money. I could win a $1000 prize for submitting an article to the BCMJ , a $250 prize for writing a BCMJ blog ...