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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM April 2008
... was transmitted by mosquitoes. Ma­laria is a major public health problem worldwide. Over 2.4 billion people in more ... must be performed as STAT testing in Re­gional Health Authority Laboratories.  The BCCDC Laboratory ... are reminded to report this infection to public health. —Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM  —Quantine Wong, ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Liza Kallstrom, July/August 2008
... the same or similar chronic conditions who meet with a health care team that consists of two or more of the ... at an IHI conference, and is now a GP champion on Interior Health’s PSP team. In that role, she will mentor her ... soon PSP group visit modules will soon be available in all health authorities. The sessions will enable practices to ...
News October 2008
... Medical Association and their Centre for Physician Health and Well-being launched a new podcast series called ... her entire practice. Healthy Practices features a range of health expert guests, including physicians and people from ... to December 2008.  The first series focuses on mental health and will cover stress, burnout, depression, and ...
News&Notes December 2008
... the BCMA. There are a great many articles about universal health care, a pressing issue at the time, with strong ... opinions both for and against this new concept in Canadian health care. Along with this come warnings about the dire straits of physicians and patients in the National Health Service of the UK. In the June issue there is an ...
News / BY: Darrell Thomson, March 2008
... of myriad committees, dealing with everything from health system planning to dispute resolution. No fewer than ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Helen Novak Lauscher, PhD May 2008
... the family physician provides an entry point into the health care system and a link to secondary care.[ 1 ] As the ... is in a unique and strategic position to deliver effective health care messages and influence the patient’s care ... lifetimes.[ 2 ]  Cancer control includes a spectrum of health-related activities such as prevention, screening, ...
News September 2008
The theme of the current issue of Children’s Mental Health Research Quarterly, a publication from Simon Fraser University’s Children’s Health Policy Centre, is diagnosing and treating childhood ... . News Children’s mental health: Bipolar disorders ...
Premise / BY: Marshall Dahl, MD, PhD, FRCPC November 2008
... and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institute of Health in the United States terminated one arm of the study ...
Letters / BY: David C. Marsh, MD, January/February 2008
... goal of CAST. All the trials are designed with improved health of the participants as the primary outcome. At the ... funding streams such as the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and facilitating advocacy for those who do ...
Letters / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD April 2008
... needles cost two to five times more than the old needles. Health regions have built the additional costs into their ... with an accepted claim from WorkSafeBC. 3. Occupational health and safety regulations are determined by each ... provinces have regulations requiring safety needles in health care institutions. BC and Manitoba have extended these ...