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Back Page / BY: BCMJ Staff November 2025
... +/− 3.42% Response rate: 3% Conducted by TWI Surveys, 9 June to 4 July 2025 Back Page BCMJ 2025 reader survey ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Selena Lawrie, MD, CCFP July/August 2025
... is the BC suicide prevention and intervention phone line. 9-8-8 is the national suicide crisis phone and text line. ...
Original Research / BY: Amina Moustaqim-Barrette, MSc April 2025
... against SARS-CoV-2 were first approved by Health Canada on 9 December 2020, less than 1 year after the novel virus was ... with the arrival of the Omicron wave in December 2021.[ 9 ] We examined COVID case and case fatality data among ... case fatality rate across waves 1 to 6 was 9.9% ( n = 338) [ Table 2 ] . Even though the rate during ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Arianne Albert, PhD October 2025
... the concurrent unregulated drug poisoning crisis.[ 9 ] Among those 60 years of age and older, differences ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Michael Joseph Lee, PhD June 2025
... neurotoxic, dermatoxic, and cytotoxic effects.[ 8,9 ] Exposure can occur via ingestion (e.g., drinking ... agriculture, sewage, urban runoff, and waste facilities.[ 9,10 ] These sources of nutrients are likely to increase as ... due to nonspecific, self-limiting symptoms.[ 9 ] Nevertheless, from 2012 to 2024, the BC Drug and Poison ...
Premise / BY: Gerald J.M. Tevaarwerk, MD, FRCPC December 2025
... 80 years and older are similar in the two countries.[ 8,9 ] In Canada, the Medical Care Act[ 10 ] of 1966 introduced ... at more than double the annual rate of Canada.[ 8,9 ] Foreign-trained physicians, at 3.6%, are one-seventh of ... specialist peers, who have 30% higher incomes.[ 8,9 ] The average number of annual in-person doctor ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Rebecca Z. Xu, MD March 2025
... drugs, with 45 deaths per 100 000 individuals in 2023.[ 9 ] Notably, drug toxicity is now the leading cause of ... were codeine (53.7%), tramadol/tapentadol (19.9%), or hydromorphone (13.4%) [ Table 2 ] . Approximately ... of three outcomes: 59.8% (59 146) stopped opioid use, 37.9% (37 457) continued opioid use, and 2.3% (2 225) ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Janene Erickson, Nak'azdli Whut'en, MPH, BKin September 2025
... Indigenous-specific racism and discrimination.”[ 9 ] BCCDC Action Plan for Reconciliation, section 1.1.1 ...
MDs To Be / BY: Ashini Dissanayake, BSc May 2025
... into some patients’ decision to access screening.[ 8,9 ] Many patients, particularly those from equity-deserving ...
Premise / BY: Robin Routledge, MD, FRCPC November 2025
... experiments;[ 8 ] Indian tuberculosis hospitals;[ 9 ] forced sterilization;[ 10 ] and residential school ...