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Letters / BY: Shefali Raja, BSc, July/August 2009
... BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) and the Ministry of Health Services (MOHS) agree with Health Canada’s review of mercury toxicity levels and the ... levels in the fish available to consumers across Canada, Health Canada’s fish consumption guidelines regarding ...
Letters / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC October 2009
... ] European Centre for Disease Control,[ 6 ] and the World Health Organization[ 7 ] each currently cite an incubation ... up to 4 days is a more likely range. The Public Health Agency of Canada also initially advised of a 1- to-7 ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ray Copes, MD, FRCPC April 2009
... water. Bottled water is regulated as a food product under Health Canada’s Food and Drug Act.[ 2 ] The Canadian Food ... standards related to municipal water are established by Health Canada through the guidelines for Canadian drinking ... to the limited information reported on the label. Health Canada is presently reviewing these labeling ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kyle D. Burns, MD, FRCPC, June 2009
... and postoperative period and entered into a provincial health database. Methods Patients Study subjects were chosen ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marion Thomas, PhD, September 2009
... patient care. Thanks to the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, which supports the British Columbia Clinical ... the BC Children’s Hospital and BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre (C&W) did exactly that when she saw a patient ... at BC Children’s Hospital and BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre in collaboration with the BC Clinical Genomics ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Greg Dines, November 2009
... medical office assistants on the front line of mental health care in BC. Family physicians screen, diagnose, and treat about 85% of the province’s mental health patients. Launched in late September, the mental health module offers family physicians specialized skills ...
News / BY: David M. Lawson, PhD, RPsych January/February 2009
... attention to the need for greater awareness of brain health and what the reader can do to improve and maintain it. ... since 2000 and is directed to the general public, although health care providers are also likely to learn from it. I ... his program that focuses on eight pillars of brain health provides the reader with explicit directions on living ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD April 2009
... claims; and, in most cases, pay worker benefits and health care provider billings. Conversion from the old system ... Forms 8 and 11 , available in the forms section of the Health Care Provider pages at WorkSafeBC.com. Since all forms ... prolonged unemployment and disability affect a patient’s health and well-being. For more information If you have any ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sandra Jarvis-Selinger, PhD July/August 2009
... is in­creasingly recognized as an essential aspect of health care reform. Indeed, the U.S. Institute of Medicine of the National Academies recommends that health care professionals develop and maintain proficiency in ... recommends using technology information as a core area for health professionals.[ 9 ] Topics of interest in technology ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Howard N. Fenster, MD, FRCSC, October 2009
... States Food and Drug Administration released two public health notifications about serious complications associated ... urinary incontinence. One notification was directed to health care professionals, the other to consumers. In the release to health care professionals, the FDA noted that over the ...