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Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Carol-Anne Vallée, MD May 2023
... and the Options for Sexual Health Sex Sense line [ Box 2 ]. To assist British Columbians who are seeking abortion, ... BOX 2. Where primary care providers can be listed as providers of ... are needed to reduce travel and wait times for services, (2) to assist people seeking an abortion to find a service ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Laura Gentile, RD, MHA July/August 2023
... strategies have been shown to be cost-effective.[ 2 ] Screening for colorectal cancer with a biennial fecal ... biennial guaiac fecal occult blood tests (gFOBTs), 1- or 2-time flexible sigmoidoscopy, and colonoscopy.[ 4 , 5 ] The ... referred for colonoscopy, 73% completed the colonoscopy: 2% were diagnosed with colorectal cancer, and 19% had a ...
Letters / BY: Bernhard E. Driedger, MD, FRCSC November 2023
... District of East Kootenay provides bus service, but only 2 days per week. As a result, for surgery, a patient may need ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ilona Hale, MD, FCFPC May 2023
... medical interventions like surgeries and hospitalization.[ 2 ] Consider the resources and energy needed to produce the ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Jacqueline Maloney, PhD September 2023
... have been increasing steadily in Canada since 2011.[ 2 ] Concerns regarding the impact on adolescent mental ... health and well-being compared with their peers [ Table 2 ]. LGBTQIA2S+ youth and those identifying as female or ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ilona Hale, MD, FCFPC December 2023
... reflect how individual children grow. During their first 2 to 3 years, children often cross percentile lines as they ... for thirst between meals and milk only with meals (maximum 2 cups per day) to avoid overconsumption of milk, which can ... milks, and nutritional supplement drinks, before age 2; energy drinks should be avoided for all children, ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Priya Manjoo, MD March 2023
... and have been adapted for use in Chile and Ireland.[ 2 , 3 ] The guidelines present a framework for obesity ... approved for use among individuals with a BMI ≥ 30 kg/m 2 or a BMI ≥ 27 kg/m 2 with adiposity-related complications, in conjunction with ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC July/August 2023
... researchers about whether a bot can qualify as an author.[ 2-4 ] ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence (AI) language ... with the ICMJE recommendations. However, this consensus[ 2 ] among medical journals does not erase the fact that ...
Premise / BY: Jan Hajek, MD October 2023
... them alive while they only appeared to be in pain.[ 2 ] We now cringe at the thought of someone being so callous. ...
Beyond Medicine, COVID-19 / BY: Amritpal Maniani, BSc April 2023
... 26 per million inhabitants across all OECD countries.[ 2 ] In Canada, the opioid crisis has affected all regions ... age of 33.1 at the time of their first overdose [ Table 2 ]. However, no participants used alone and naloxone ... number of participants (4/10), followed by an apartment (2/10), a public park (1/10), a public street (1/10), a public ...