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News / BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS July/August 2013
... travel insurance. BCMA members covered under the extended health benefit of the Standard or Core-Plus Plans are covered ... insurance and are not required to complete an annual health questionnaire. For members who do not participate in ... plan. The MEDOC plan requires annual completion of a Health Option Questionnaire.  The MEDOC plan is open to all ...
News October 2013
... in the American Journal of Psychiatry reveals the multiple health concerns faced by an esti-mated 3000 tenants in ... The results of the study aim to improve the provision of health care and housing among residents of the Downtown ... can be viewed at http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org . News Health of SRO hotel tenants in Downtown Eastside ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Sami Youakim, MD, MSc, FRCP December 2013
... Naeher LP, Brauer M, Lipsett M, et al. Woodsmoke health effects: A review. InhalToxicol 2007;19:67-106. ...
News / BY: Anne I. Clarke, MD January/February 2013
... review: The Research Guide: A primer for residents, other health care trainees and practitioners ...
Obituaries / BY: Linda J. Warren, MD, January/February 2013
... at BC Children’s Hospital and BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre. During his leadership as president of the ... uniting physicians throughout the entire Vancouver Coastal Health Authority. A BCMA board and committee member for many ... Greater Vancouver Regional District and the Ministry of Health. He enjoyed and was very proud of his responsibilities ...
Editorials / BY: Cynthia Verchere, MD April 2013
... of achieving those goals.  I think in our present-day health care industry, those roles may not be in the best ... them see the role bring real harm to their practice, their health, their relationships with their administrative and ...
News June 2013
A new report from the Fraser Institute shows that it takes Health Canada nearly a year to grant marketing ap­proval to ...  Federal De­lays in Approving New Medicines 2013 , Health Canada took a median of 355 days to issue a Notice of ... faster in Europe and the United States.  In 2010, Health Canada approval was 448 days compared with 319 at the ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2013
... Arctic Winter Games, served as vice-chair of the Mental Health Review Board, and was president of Medical Staff at ... in BC. The organization creates a great deal of BC health policy, solves problems collaboratively to create excellent patient care, negotiates the value of the health care product, and changes the product as the system ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Bruce Hobson, MD November 2013
... Solution (PLIS). In addition, the Lower Mainland health authorities and the Provincial Health Services Authority have recently developed integrated health information technology platforms to enable the ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD March 2013
... request was leaning against a No Smoking sign.  One of my health authority’s initiatives was to make all of their ... staff who smoke are forced to go elsewhere. I applaud this health-driven decision, but unfortunately it hasn’t quite ... safe injection sites, and needle exchanges. For the health of the non-smokers and care of our hospital, perhaps ...