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News June 2011
... per year. Médicins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the World Health Organization are petitioning African governments to ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2011
... at BC Children’s Hospital and BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre in the Department of Pediatrics.  One month in ... pediatrics the biggest frustration is referrals to mental health and neurodevelopmental problems. We are so lacking ... balance. This will of course lead to manpower issues and health human resources issues, but we will have to somehow ...
News / BY: Brian Day, MB November 2011
... Bliss achieves this goal. The current trend in Canadian health care is based on the term “transformation.” We ...
News January/February 2011
... in early detection of skin cancer and can be used by any health care professional—dermatologist, family doctor, ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD May 2011
... than ever.  The boomers are going to consume more health care services as they age and demand ever-increasing ... penalty on the rich? Is the answer to expand the private health care sector to relieve the strain on the public ... insurance premiums are already based on a number of health risk factors, so perhaps we could use some of these. ...
Letters / BY: Heidi M. Oetter, MD July/August 2011
All registrants are required under the Health Professions Act to provide a public address and phone ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Philip E. Lee, MD, FRCPC, October 2011
... moderate AD,[ 17-19 ] while donepezil is also approved by Health Canada for pa­tients with severe AD.[ 17 ] See  ... on sharing information and experience among physicians, health care professionals, and the public regarding dementia. ... Dr Hsiung is supported by a Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) Clinical Genetics Investigatorship and ...
News October 2011
... access to some medical supplies and equipment from their health authority. The Pharmaceutical Services and Health Authorities Divisions of the Ministry of Health and palliative care physicians would like referring ...
Letters / BY: Benjamin Martens, MD, December 2011
... and seem to likely result in deterioration of the health care system in BC. I had hopes that the negotiations ... the BC government’s commitment to establishing a robust health care system. As such, unless things change ...
News&Notes / BY: J. Pawlovich, MD March 2011
... Bri­tish Columbia is on the cusp of great change. Rural health care has met the information technology age and things ... between the au­thor and a strongly supportive Northern Health Authority. It was a proposal that articulated the need to bring echocardiograms into a rural health care facility away from the regional centres.  The ...