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Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2012
... we need to do the same by working with the government, the health authorities, and UBC to come to a mechanism where ... to say that the absolute greatest advance in women’s health (and men’s health too), was the development of the HPV vaccine. When I ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: David Florkowski, PhD, MEd, ATC, CSCS, CEAS, CFCE, October 2012
... MEd, ATC, CSCS, CEAS, CFCE WorkSafeBC Program Manager, Health Care Services, Visiting Specialists Clinic —Robert ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Travis Hottes, MSc, March 2012
... to treatment regimens. In this context, the Public Health Agency of Canada is recommending immediate changes to ... of individual gonococcal cases and in­form public health surveillance of drug resistance,  N. gonorrhoeae ... shortly. The BCCDC, in partnership with the BC Public Health Microbiology & Reference Laboratory, will continue to ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Prabjit Barn, MSc, May 2012
... lowest level of a building, such as basements.  In 2007 Health Canada lowered the guideline for annual radon ... Environmental Protection Agency (150 Bq/m3) and the World Health Or­ganization (100 Bq/m3).[ 2 ]  Although many homes in BC may have radon concentrations below the Health Ca­nada guideline, particularly those lo­cated in ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM July/August 2012
... Zoonotic Diseases and Emerging Pathogens,  BCCDC Public Health  Microbiology & Reference Laboratory, PHSA ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Simon W. Rabkin, MD, FRCPC, FACC October 2012
... the phenomena labeled clinical inertia, which occurs when health care providers do not initiate or intensify therapy ... of some antihypertensive agents may explain why some health care providers appear willing to accept small blood ... simple ways to uncover this problem. Collaborative health care models with a physician, home care nurse, and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Robert Strang MD, FRCPC December 2012
Prison health care in Nova Scotia By Robert Strang   Nova Scotia ... and one youth).  At that time, the dep­uty ministers for health and justice agreed that the Ministry of Justice would ... correctional facilities, and that the Ministry of Health, through the Capital District Health Authority (CDHA), ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Celina Dunn, MD, CCFP, CIME March 2012
... systematic reviews (it’s posted at  www.worksafebc.com/health_care_providers/Assets/PDF/Hernia.pdf ). It showed that ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC June 2012
Opioid overdose is a public health issue in British Columbia. In 2009, more than 200 ... Acknowledgments The authors would like to acknowledge the health authorities, community partners, and other ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Sterling Haynes, MD July/August 2012
... was that abortions could be done where the life or the health of the pregnant woman was in jeopardy. At the Royal ...