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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Veronic Clair, MD, PhD, CCFP, FRCPC May 2022
... 2013, with the worst rates among female and LGBTQ+ youth.[ 2 ] Even pre-COVID-19, BC was not on track to meet its mental ...
Obituaries / BY: David M. Lawson, PhD, RPsych September 2022
... her residency in internal medicine in 1979, followed by a 2-year postdoctoral research and clinical fellowship in ... that their likely diagnosis was a death sentence within 2 years. She stayed in contact with her patients and consoled ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Olivia Sampson, MD, CCFP, MPH, FRCPC, ABPM December 2022
... to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. We will call you back within 2 hours. If your call is about your patient’s claim, ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Rahana Harjee, MD, FRCSC April 2022
... associated with increased spontaneous miscarriage rates.[ 2 ] Pandemic stress may be exacerbated in patients who are ... per positive beta-human chorionic gonadotropin [ Figure 2 ]. Across all treatment types, the spontaneous miscarriage ... embryo transfers, clinical miscarriages occurred in 12.2% of patients prepandemic and 12.6% during the pandemic ( P ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM June 2022
... Canada, it is transmitted by I. scapularis . Ticks have a 2-year life cycle and three stages; the second (nymph) and ... migrans, is seen 3 to 30 days after infection [ Figure 2 ]. If not treated, early disseminated manifestations arise ... 9% had Bell palsy, 4% had another radiculoneuropathy, 2% had meningitis or encephalitis, and 1% had carditis.[ 4 ] ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Troy Grennan, MD, DTM&H, MSc, FRCPC October 2022
... among women and children, these cases have been rare.[2] For individuals outside of the current risk groups, other ... use a different swab for different anatomic areas. Swab 2–3 lesions per area, unroof vesicles, and/or vigorously ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD January/February 2022
Letters / BY: Mark Elliott, MD, FRCPC January/February 2022
... a good percentage of the cited articles are self-cited.[ 2 ] Would medicine be just as effective, and not as ...
Editorials, COVID-19 / BY: Yazdan Mirzanejad, MD, DTMH, FRCP, FACP, MRCP May 2022
... diagnoses in inpatient and outpatient medicine.[ 1 , 2 ] We are facing many emerging infectious diseases ... in the light of current epidemics such as SARS-CoV-2, HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria, as well as the rapid ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Elizabeth Purssell, MD, MSc September 2022
... of the leading causes of preventable death in trauma.[ 1 , 2 ] The cornerstone of the emergency management of massive ... flow to critical organs, including the heart and brain.[ 2 , 3 , 7-10 ] Although REBOA is less invasive than ... A 2021 survey found that only 21.9% of Canadian level 1 or 2 trauma centres currently have a REBOA program.[ 25 ] These ...