Search

BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Rob Gair, BSc (Pharm), November 2011
... the Drug and Poison Information Centre (DPIC) at the BC Centre for Disease Control, a division of the Provincial ... Gair, BSc (Pharm), CSPI, Poison Information Pharmacist, BC Drug and Poison Information Centre (DPIC) —Debra Kent, PharmD, DABAT, Clinical Supervisor, BC DPIC —Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC, ABEM Medical Director, BC ...
Letters / BY: Willem R. Vroom, MD April 2011
... B1 should be relatively uniform across Canada. However, BC authorizations to possess marijuana are nearly one-third ... are any less educated on “medical marijuana” than BC physicians. More likely this points to the lack of robust ... of the highly prevalent use of recreational marijuana in BC.  Whether Health Canada or the courts created “medical ...
Letters / BY: Douglas C. Drummond, MD July/August 2011
... share some thoughts with your readers on the new 2010 OSMV BC Guide in Determining Fitness to Drive/Cognitive Impairment ... DriveABLE against the on-road test. Do the testing in BC facilities and have the study conducted by investigators ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Kathleen Cadenhead, MD October 2011
British Columbians can now call or e-mail Health Link BC’s Dietitian Services with any nutrition or food-related ... concerns. As part of the pro­vince’s Healthy Families BC program, BC dietitians are available to answer physicians’ questions ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Mark Gilbert, MD, MHSc, FRCPC December 2011
Now available in BC: E-cards patients can use to notify sex partners to get ... with a sexually transmitted infection (STI) every year in BC. It is important that their sex partners be tested and ... as well, in order to reduce the spread of infection. In BC, there are many ways patients with an STI can encourage ...
News January/February 2011
... communications strategy promoted the lobbying efforts of BC phy­sicians toward prohibiting the operation of handheld devices while driving.  The concerns voiced by BC phy­sicians were heard, and in 2010 the provincial ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC June 2011
... of an infected tick.[ 1 ] The principal tick vector in BC is the Pacific black-legged tick,  Ixodes pacificus ,[ 2 ... is found throughout the highly populated areas of southern BC. This situation is in contrast to eastern Canada and the ... most common vector.  The low incidence of Lyme disease in BC may be explained by the fact that  I. pacificus  is a ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: David M. Patrick, MD, FRCPC, MHSc September 2011
BC physicians are playing an active role in rethinking ... the introduction of a few very resistant isolates to BC, we see relatively low levels of Enterobacteriaceae spp. ... United States result in an antibiotic prescription.[ 3 ] BC data show that URTI is the most commonly identified reason ...
Obituaries / BY: Brian Day, MB October 2011
... medicine from McGill University in 1950. Upon returning to BC he interned at Vancouver General Hospital and did his ... led to long-lasting productive relations with not only the BC Cancer Agency, but also with biomedical engineers and the ...
News&Notes / BY: J. Pawlovich, MD March 2011
... Fraser Lake is located near the geo­graphic centre of BC. It is a dot along Highway 16 that meanders from Prince ... km away at the newly named University Hospital of Northern BC in Prince George.  In 2002 Fraser Lake developed a rural ... put forth to the multiple players in diagnostic imaging in BC. This was a co­operative venture between the au­thor and ...