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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM October 2013
The influenza season is almost upon us, and this fall the BC publicly funded influenza immunization program will be ... attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) called FluMist. In BC, this live attenuated vaccine is recommended for children ... is unchanged from recent years, and can be found in the BC Im-munization Manual at ...
News January/February 2013
The BC Cancer Agency awarded their 2012 Community Care Award to ... MacDiarmid presented the award to Dr McGregor at the BC Cancer Agency’s annual cancer conference award banquet ...
News April 2013
Expenditures for the new fiscal year in the 2013–2014 BC budget (tabled in February) are set at $16.6 billion, $234 ... last year included a 0.5% annual increase in fees for BC physicians in the first 2 years, but increases for the ... has said he expects bargaining to be “intense.” News BC budget tough on health spending ...
News July/August 2013
... electronic hepatitis C resources is now available from the BC Centre for Disease Control to help people affected by the ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Chelsea Haines, RN, BScN, November 2013
... is a collaborative project of the Ministry of Health, BC Centre for Disease Control, regional health authorities, ... and the public, along with tools to make it easier for BC families to get immunized.  British Columbians rely on ... At ImmunizeBC, doctors can find:  •    The current BC immunization sched-ules for infants, children, and adults, ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Marsha Taylor, MSc, March 2013
... labor, spontaneous abortion, or neonatal infection.  In BC, approximately 9% of infections between 2002 and 2012 were ... during pregnancy and the resources currently available in BC. Using their feedback, we developed resources consisting ... and help to decrease morbidity.  —Marsha Taylor, MSc BC Centre for Disease Control  —Meghan Kelly, MD, CCFP ...
News May 2013
... Authority has received $10 million in funding from Genome BC, Genome Canada, the Vancouver Island Health Authority, and ...
News September 2013
... deliveries in the Ulaanbaatar Maternity Hospital. The  BC Medical Journal  congratulates all these exceptional ...
News&Notes / BY: Kendall Ho, MD, FRCPC December 2013
... Columbia eHealth Strategy Office, with funding from the BC Ministry of Health, has developed the Health-e-Apps ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Bill Cavers, MD January/February 2013
... to work toward closing gaps in care and providing BC physicians with the support they need to deliver effective ... In spring 2013 the PSP will launch How’s Your Health BC? (HYHBC), an initiative aimed at getting patients more ... Medical School, redesigned specifically for residents of BC. It is a free web-based application ( ...