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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Catherine Elliott, MD, December 2010
... partic­ulate matter (PM 2.5) and many tox­ic compounds.[ 1 ] Exposure to forest fire smoke has well-documented health ef­fects,[ 1 ] including asthma exacerbations[ 2 ] and other respiratory ... Health Service Area (Wil­liams Lake) ( Figure 1 ). After almost a week of smoky days in Cariboo-Chilcotin, ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Celina Dunn, MD, CCFP, CIME March 2010
... local WorkSafeBC office or call 604 244-6224, or toll free 1 888 967-5377, local 6224. —Celina Dunn, MD, CCFP ...
News / BY: Willem R. Vroom, MD June 2010
By Karen Shklanka. Coteau Books, 2009. ISBN: 978-1-55050-402-6. Paperback, 87 pages. $16.95. Dr Karen Shklanka ...
News October 2010
... in British Columbia. Only one award will be made in any 1 year and there shall be no obligation on the fund to make ... be obtained from  www.cma.ca/index.cfm/ci_id/1368/la_id/1.htm  (select “About CMA” and “Awards from CMA”).  ...
Letters / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC January/February 2010
... November 2009, just before the holiday shopping season.[ 1 ] It reported that “so far in 2009, CPSC has recalled nearly 1.3 million toys or other children’s products (including ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD April 2010
... care for neck pain be triaged as follows: • Grade 1—No signs of pathology and little or no interference with ... is not indicated in the initial assessment of grades 1 or 2 neck pain, while grade 3 may require elective ... can help in the short term. In the early stages of grade 1 or 2 neck pain, the task force recommends the following: ...
News / BY: Martin De Smet, MD, July/August 2010
... and diagnostics, malaria continues to kill almost 1 million people every year. In sub-Saharan Africa, malaria ... these tests, MSF successfully diagnosed and treated over 1 million malaria patients in 30 countries.  The systematic ...
News November 2010
... in British Columbia. Only one award will be made in any 1 year and there shall be no obligation on the fund to make ... be obtained from  www.cma.ca/index.cfm/ci_id/1368/la_id/1.htm  (select “About CMA” and “Awards from CMA”). ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM March 2010
... in future incidence of cervical cancer abnormalities.[ 1 ] A BC-based economic analysis found that a female-only ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marc W. Deyell, MD, FRCPC, June 2010
... resuscitation, and synchronized cardioversion.[ 1 - 3 ]  Once clinicians had tools at their disposal for the ... ICD use for secondary prevention are presented in  Table 1 . ICDs for primary prevention The issue of which patients ... most of these trials enrolled patients at least 1 month after MI in an effort to exclude any patient whose ...