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Clinical Articles / BY: Jan Klimas, MSc, PhD September 2020
... addicted to opioids (oral communication, Bohdan Nosyk, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, 1 August 2018) as a result ... numbers reporting misuse and disorders.[ 3 ] The BC Centre on Substance Use recently published a systematic ...
News, COVID-19 July/August 2020
BC-based Patriot One Technologies and its subsidiary, Xtract ... by the UBC Community Health and Wellbeing Cloud Innovation Centre. Additional support for the project is being provided ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC November 2020
... stigma of infertility. This is the third issue of the BC Medical Journal in which I have had the privilege of being ... —Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC Co-Director, Pacific Centre for Reproductive Medicine Editorials Guest editorial: ...
News October 2020
Children across BC with extraordinary health needs, requiring complex care, ... soon have access to a children’s complex care transition centre in Vancouver. Operated by the BC Children’s Hospital, the facility will fill gaps in ...
News July/August 2020
... poisonous mushroom, Amanita phalloides , is growing in BC” [ BCMJ 2019;61:20-24 ]. Dr Moor-Smith wrote the article ... Li, a drug and poison information pharmacist at the BC Drug and Poison Information Centre, and Dr Omar Ahmad, a physician with Island Health, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: T. Justin Dhinsa, BSc May 2020
... sessions rather than being referred to a tertiary care centre for further workup. Early identification of patients ... improvement observational study of patients treated at BC Children’s Hospital (BCCH) was proposed to address this ... and Ewing sarcoma.    Methods: Six pediatric patients at BC Children’s Hospital who were diagnosed with either ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Abigail Steinberg, MD November 2020
... but pulmonary infection cannot be excluded.[ 2 ] The BC Centre for Disease Control has coordinated surveillance of VALI in BC. By February 2020, 2807 hospitalizations and 68 deaths due ...
Premise / BY: H.M.K. McGillivray, BSc December 2020
... detection leading to a better prognosis. The costs The BC Ministry of Health will spend approximately $21 billion in ... as the demand for diagnostic imaging is increasing. In BC alone, funding for MRI scans was recently increased by 20% ... recently announced that a new regional cancer treatment centre in Surrey will have two PET/CT scanners, including a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Julian Marsden, MD May 2019
... ambulance crews for other patients. In September 2017 the BC Emergency Medicine Network (EM Network) was launched to ... departments (EDs) and diagnostic and treatment centres in BC.[ 1 ] The EM Network operates under the oversight of a ... rural node represents an ED or diagnostic and treatment centre with at least one emergency practitioner. These are ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB May 2019
... as a senior, I can. I received a Gold Care Card from the BC government that afforded me greater health benefits based ... CMA president, Dr Gigi Osler, should have been front and centre as the main speaker at that event. Our professional ...