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Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD December 2003
... recently gave notice that it intended to amend the Health Practitioners Act in order to wrestle control of BC ... access to care,” one of the cornerstones of the Canada Health Act. So, if we want to even the economic playing field ... we are all in danger of falling off of. —JAW Editorials Health gap and economics ...
Letters / BY: James E Parker, MB June 2003
... approbation in restoring the conventional role of public health in epidemic containment. His effective handling of ... measures. In this country Reid and Archibald from Health Canada ( CMAJ  2003;168[8]:958-960) tell us that ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD March 2003
... level that allowed it to fulfill the promise of the Canada Health Act. When I politely asked how much she thought the ... out how much tax money Canadians need to dedicate to their health care system to satisfy what appears to be, ... If we continue to fund all that is “needed” in health care, this fiscal black hole will bankrupt us. Instead ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD November 2003
... and we were making an investment in our future good health. Now I’m sure she didn’t believe one word of my ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: M. Fyfe, MD, MSc May 2003
... in BC. Physicians must report the following to the medical health officer in their area: • Patients who have ... blood in the previous 4 weeks. BCCDC and regional medical health officers will notify physicians and the public when ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Barbara Cadario, BSc, BScPhm, MSc January/February 2003
Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are a public health problem that is partly preventable with sufficient ... providing the basis for many drug safety advisories from Health Canada or industry, such as those describing pure red ... Centre, the local centre for pharmacovigilance set up by Health Canada. These reports, of which nearly two-thirds ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Daniel W.L. Lai, PhD October 2003
... was even higher at 47.2%. These figures suggest that health practitioners are serving more Chinese-Canadians and need to pay additional attention to the health status of this large ethnic community. Despite the size of the Chinese-Canadian population, limited health research has been done on this ethnic group, ...
Letters / BY: John Hall, MD January/February 2002
... very well the attitude that many patients have about health professionals. The article can be applied equally ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB September 2002
... than that is not medically necessary? Although the Canada Health Act (CHA) requires that all  medically necessary  ... is not medically necessary,” wrote a BC Ministry of Health bureaucrat to a cancer patient who had undergone a ... so-called right-wing Alberta government for changing its health coverage so that it no longer funded replacement ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jiri Frohlich, MD, FRCPC May 2002
... and stroke.  Figure 1  shows the data from the National Health and Nutrition Survey (NHANES) that compared CHD death ... Diabetes Study (UKPDS),  [12]  and the Cardiovascular Health Study [8,13]  showed that the major lipoprotein ... of excessive accumulation of abdominal fat is a public health priority.  Competing interests None declared.   ...