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Letters / BY: George E. Price, MD October 2011
... regarding the prevalence and risk of Lyme disease in BC.  For some years, the lower incidence of Lyme disease in Canada (especially in BC) compared with some areas of the US has been attributed by ... .[ 4 ] In 1995 I reported a case of Lyme arthritis in BC and speculated that the paucity of cases in BC was further ...
News / BY: Arlene Cristall, MSc, December 2011
... MSc, RD Program Coordinator Centre for Healthy Weights, BC BC Children’s Hospital News Book review: Overweight: What ...
Obituaries / BY: M. Graham Clay, MD, January/February 2011
... younger daughter, Andrea, is a family physician in Sidney, BC. Chris was born in London, England, where his father, Sir ... was located at 1665 West Broadway, now the address of the BC Medical Association. Aside from his own practice, his ... in shows at the Robson Square Media Centre and the BC Pavilion, as well as with a juried traveling exhibition ...
News / BY: Julie Kwan, BBA, CFP, CLU, GBA June 2011
... can contact me at 604 638-8745; 800 665-2262;  jkwan@bcma.bc.ca ). You should reassess your insurance needs at least ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2011
... the more I liked it. I used to teach regular sessions at BC Children’s Hospital and BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre in the Department of ... Mount Saint Joseph Hospital for 11 years. President of the BC Medical Association; these are my personal achievements.  ...
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 ...