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Clinical Articles / BY: Maxwell Moor-Smith, BSc January/February 2019
... A. phalloides specimens were first collected in BC in 1997 from under European chestnut trees at Lake Errock ... landscaped grounds of Government House, the residence of BC’s lieutenant governor. A. phalloides was detected in ... or have a green or yellow hue, and is often darker in the centre. A. phalloides specimens typically feature white gills ...
News May 2019
... (PCNs) and the new Burnaby Urgent and Primary Care Centre (UPCC) are coming to Burnaby in May 2019. The PCNs and ... in the Edmonds PCN, is the sixth centre to be announced in BC. The centre will open in two phases. The first phase ... primary health care strategy, visit https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2018PREM0034-001010 . To learn more about the ...
News April 2019
... patients at the Vancouver General Hospital Skin Care Centre and studied the changes that occurred to this light ... and dermatology at UBC and a senior scientist at both BC Cancer and the Vancouver Coastal Health Research ... not a replacement. This is a joint project between UBC, BC Cancer, and the Vancouver Coastal Health Research ...
News March 2018
The new Urgent Care Centre at BC Women’s Hospital is the only one of its kind ... who arrive for triage, assessment, and admissions to BC Women’s Hospital. The new facility provides care to ...
News December 2018
... Medicine have named Dr Christy Sutherland as the 2018 BC recipient of the Family Physicians of the Year award. The ... As education physician lead for the British Columbia Centre on Substance Abuse, Dr Sutherland works with other ... improving the lives of vulnerable populations. News 2018 BC Family Physician of the Year, Dr Christy Sutherland ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Katherine A. Blood, MD, PhD January/February 2018
... cancer—the number one cancer diagnosed in women in BC.[ 1 ] The majority of breast cancers are thought to occur ... population.[ 1 ] The Hereditary Cancer Program (HCP) at BC Cancer accepts physician or self-referrals for hereditary ... to the High-Risk Clinic at the BC Cancer Vancouver Centre. The clinic is run by a nurse practitioner and a ...
President's Comment / BY: Trina Larsen Soles, MD May 2018
... Division of Family Practice and the Rural Coordinating Centre of BC, both of which are funded through Doctors of BC and the Ministry of Health. Several ongoing projects arose ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM May 2018
Beginning April 2018, BC and other Canadian provinces and territories will begin to ... (RV1, ROTARIX, GlaxoSmithKline), which has been used in BC since the program started in January 2012. This change is ... Programs and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Service BC Centre for Disease Control BC Centre for Disease Control ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC June 2018
... in the country. The average age of a first-time mother in BC is 30.8 years, according to Statistics Canada, compared ... significant move toward delayed childbearing. In 2015 the BC Vital Statistics Agency noted that the proportion of ... —Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC Co-Director at the Pacific Centre for Reproductive Medicine  Editorials Guest ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Afsaneh Moradi July/August 2018
... unwell is ubiquitous in popular culture. The reality in BC schools is much different—while health authorities ... clinic, the Nanaimo District Secondary School Wellness Centre in September 2016. Northern Interior Rural Barriers to ... Community Partnership and Integration, Doctors of BC Family Practice Services Committee Division-led school ...