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BY: Mark Bigham, MD
July/August 2006
... is the period of highest WNV risk to the blood supply. [1,2] As in the previous 2 years, no case of transfusion-transmitted (TT)-WNV was ... of public health-reported WNV in a health region over a 2-week period exceeding either 1:1000 in rural areas or ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Brian Phillips,
November 2006
... the International Commission on Radiological Protection [ 2] recommended that action level values be set between 200 ... of tobacco smoke and radon. For a non-smoker, the risk is 2% (a 1 in 50 chance). Impact on BC Data on testing in BC ... the regions where smoking is more prevalent. Around 1% to 2% of the 200 000 single-family dwellings in these ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP
May 2006
... health and well-being of British Columbians. Currently 5.2% of people living in BC have been diagnosed with diabetes ...
Interviews /
BY: Jay Draper
September 2006
... medicine residency. Then we went to England while he did 2 years of research in genetics and I started school there. ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Xanthoula Kostaras, BSc
April 2005
... provide complete symptom control should be used. Table 2 outlines the most commonly prescribed psychotropic ... All trimesters Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) Table 2. Effects of exposure to psychotropic medications during ...
Editorials /
BY: Susan E. Haigh, MD
September 2005
... many people complain about being e-mail strangled, taking 2 to 3 hours a day to deal with the volume of messages before ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Ronald S. Manley, PhD, RPsych
January/February 2005
... that the physician consult the work of Strober, [1,2] as we have drawn heavily on his thinking, both in our ... clear and helpful guidelines for the clinician. [1,2] According to Strober, the eating disorder can best be ...
Premise /
BY: David Snadden, MBChB, MCISc, MD, FRCGP, FRCP (Edin)
June 2005
... UBC curriculum, and graduate with UBC degrees. In the next 2 years, buildings were planned, staff were appointed, and ... the long overdue feminization of the physician workforce [2] mean the shortage could be greater. So BC may still face ...
WorkSafeBC /
BY: Don Graham, MD, CCFP
October 2005
... 1 (OR1) 8.8 76.65 Occupational Rehabilitation Program 2 (OR2) 8.3 70.21 Hand Therapy 9.2 68.80 Chronic Pain (CP) 7.8 61.19 Medical and ...