WorkSafeBC /
BY: Kukuh Noertjojo, MD,
December 2010
... Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Library’s Health Technology Assessment Database, BIOSIS, Embase, and ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Derryck H. Smith, MD, FRCPC
January/February 2010
... Code of Ethics read as follows: 31. Protect the personal health information of your patients. 35. Disclose your patients’ personal health information to third parties only with their consent, ... Defence Lawyers,” that “when a person puts his or her health in issue in litigation, there is an implied waiver of ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Natalie Prystajecky, PhD, SCCM
April 2010
... the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control Public Health Microbiology Reference Laboratory (BCPHL), Provincial Health Services Authority Laboratories, in British Columbia ... Columbia for such an event.[ 1 ] The Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network (CPHLN; www.cphln.ca ) ...
Family Practice Services Committee /
BY: Robert Young, MD,
June 2010
... BC met with representatives from the BCMA, the Ministry of Health Services, and the province’s health authorities as well as with patients and their ... to increased benefits for patients and lower costs to the health care system.[ 1 ] Since the challenge of attaching ...
News
September 2010
... courage or the endurance of hardship in the promotion of health or the saving of life; or advancing the humanitarian ... to the advancement of medical research, medical education, health care organization, or health education of the public; service to the people of ...
News
November 2010
Health Education Solutions, an American continuing medical ... courses. The 10-article special section is free for health care providers, first responders, and individuals who ... Mimics,” and “The Seven D’s of Stroke Survival.” Health Education Solutions provides the cognitive portions of ...
President's Comment /
BY: Brian Brodie, MD
January/February 2010
... please contact the BCMA and ask for the Council on Health Promotion. One of the most powerful messages the ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Jennifer M. Wilson, MD, FRCPC,
May 2010
... and living expenses) are covered by the BC Ministry of Health Services. These patients then return to be cared for ... should be well informed and demonstrate adequate health behavior and a willingness to adhere to health care guidelines.[ 12 ] In BC potential transplant ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Michael Bayliss, MD, FRCPC,
July/August 2010
... Women’s Hospital in Boston designed the Physicians’ Health Study, the first randomized controlled trial to ... At approximately the same time that the Physicians’ Health Study was underway, a group from Oxford University in ... Trial conflicted with those of the Physicians’ Health Study, it is important to note that the British trial ...
Letters /
BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC
October 2010
... antibiotics in our livestock should be of great concern to Health Canada. —H.C. George Wong, MD Vancouver Letters Re: ...