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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC May 2011
... 2011, 45 cases were reported by physicians throughout BC, including at least three deaths.  Historically, ... at its borders contains levamisole.[ 7 ] Public Health in BC continues to receive reports of agranulocytosis related to ... of this condition consists of voluntary reporting by BC physicians using a standard case re­port form, which is ...
News July/August 2011
BC Children’s Hospital is launching a new clinical research ... called “Treatable Intellectual Disability Endeavour in BC (TIDE-BC),” features a diagnostic protocol of specific lab tests ...
Letters / BY: Warren Bell, MD, CM, CCFP, FCFP(LM) October 2011
... newsletter; despite the best efforts of the current BC government to destroy it, the TI continues to critique the ...
Letters / BY: Robert Shepherd, MD December 2011
... that the EMR software packages currently available in BC improve measurable patient outcomes? —Robert Shepherd, ...
Obituaries / BY: Doug Wilson, MD, January/February 2011
... Services Division, Ministry of Health, for the Province of BC. He retired from clinical medicine in 1987, moving back to ... Sciences Mall, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3.  Any correspondence for Marjorie Wilson should ... be sent to Ms Kate Lucyk-Bowen, 12634 28th Avenue, Surrey, BC V4A 2P3.  When I hear the bagpipes sing, I know that Dad ...
News June 2011
Dr Andrew Eisen of Vancouver, BC, received the 2011 Marcel Bertrand Exceptional Support ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Greg Dines, September 2011
... health outcomes.” A joint committee of the BCMA and the BC Ministry of Health, the GPSC’s mandate is to support the ... Currently, there are 25 divisions of family practice in BC that encompass 92 communities, and discussions are under ... by FPs, including programs and services, as well as BC’s 6000 specialist physicians and nearly 18000 allied ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Stacy L. Elliott, MD, November 2011
... The author acknowledges her colleagues at the BC Centre for Sexual Medicine at Vancouver Coastal Health as ... Shannon Griffin, RN, of the Men’s Health Initiative of BC for their expertise, and Dr Leela John, PharmD, for ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Diana June King, March 2010
In November 2009, we lost a giant of BC medicine. Dr Don Rix has left behind a legacy of ...   Painting by Edgardo Lantin, courtesy of BC Cancer Agency Despite an amazing array of interests and ... backwards to prove we were as good as any other lab in BC. If we were required to run a quality check every 10 ...
News / BY: Bakul Dalal, MD, June 2010
The Guidelines and Protocols Committee of BC (GPAC) considers feedback from BC physicians regarding the draft guideline documents before ...