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News November 2013
A new report from the Health Council of Canada, entitled “Better health, better care, better value for all,” indicates that a decade of health care reform in Canada has produced disappointing ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Gary Mazowita, MD, March 2013
... mellitus is a major metabolic disease with known poor health outcomes and significant costs to the individual and the health care system. It is one of several chronic disabling ... diabetes. These guidelines are intended to promote better health outcomes for diabetic patients and the population as a ...
News April 2013
... gain in prostate cancer.  •    Dr Hon Leong, London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario. Dr Leong will be ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Lorraine McIntyre, MSc July/August 2013
... for toxins in the edible tissues of shellfish are set by Health Canada and include domoic acid (responsible for ... should report patients with shellfish poisoning to public health agencies in order to facilitate case identification, public health messaging, and harvest management (including product ...
President's Comment / BY: William Cunningham, MD, CCFP, CCFP (EM) September 2013
... of our relationship with patients, one another, and other health care providers. Un­fortunately, there is a general ... specific areas for improvement. Stakeholders included health authorities, the CMA and other physician groups, CMPA, ... medical practice. By improving professional relationships, health care professionals are better able meet the challenges ...
Letters / BY: John Walton, MD December 2013
... ] should awaken us to the urgent need to modernize our health care delivery system. The cost to society of ... investigation is an outrage. Much of what now passes for health care is very expensive reassurance. No individual ...
Letters / BY: Katie Wiskar, MD, FRCPC January/February 2013
... and Dufour and their support in recognizing that physician health is an area of medicine that is far too often ... that we face in promoting this aspect of physician health.  I would like to echo the sentiments of Drs Moore ...
News March 2013
... Columbians face a $415 billion tax bill for increased health care costs over the next 50 years to provide care for ... said in a report in January. The institute projects public health care spending will rise from 8% of GDP currently to ... To alleviate these costs the institute suggests converting health care from a pay-as-you-go plan to prefunding future ...
News May 2013
... research project ever conducted in the Vancouver Island Health Authority has received $10 million in funding from Genome BC, Genome Canada, the Vancouver Island Health Authority, and other partners. Re­searchers led by Dr ...
News July/August 2013
... University of British Columbia and funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada. To view the full list of Attendance ...