News
December 2019
... challenge. In Canada, one in three people (approximately 9.1 million) will be affected by mental illness during their ...
WorkSafeBC /
BY: Tanya Fairweather, MD, CCFP, FCFP
July/August 2019
... 7-item (Gad-7) and Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) scores. Concerns about safety such as suicidal or ...
Beyond Medicine /
BY: A.M. Ocana, MD, CCFP, ABAM
January/February 2019
... market larger than that for coffee, wheat, or corn[ 9 ] and explains why the three largest cannabis stocks now ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Joanna Cheek, MD, FRCPC
October 2019
... the most underfunded services in the health care system.[ 9 ] Since treatment by a physician is covered by the BC ... rely on the primary care system for mental health care.[ 9 ] However, family physicians experience many limitations in ... Work and Social Adjustment Scale (WSAS). The PHQ-8 and PHQ-9 are self-report symptom checklists that score each DSM ...
President's Comment /
BY: Kathleen Ross, MD
September 2019
... dinner was a bit off schedule, I did have time to eat. At 9:00 p.m. I was called back to assess an abnormal fetal heart ...
WorkSafeBC /
BY: David J. Rhine, MD, FRCPC
March 2019
... change positions frequently and switch up activities).[ 9 ] This approach can be initiated by the patient’s primary ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Brandon Yau, MD, MPH, CCFP, FRCPC
July/August 2019
... an opioid in mussels received extensive media coverage.[ 2-9 ] CECs in water Pharmaceuticals enter the aquatic milieu ... leading to the calculation that mussel tissue accumulates 9.86 times (84% CI, 0-24) the concentration of oxycodone in ... their hormone systems, and reproductive capacity.[ 3,9,24-27 ] Few studies have investigated the effect of CECs on ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Maxwell Moor-Smith, BSc
January/February 2019
... coastal oak at 5 km per year on average (range 3 to 9 km/year).[ 5 ] Additionally, predictive climate suitability ... centrilobular necrosis and vascular degeneration.[ 2 , 9 ] Amatoxins are primarily eliminated by renal excretion, ... biliary excretion and enterohepatic recirculation.[ 9 ] The kidneys may also be affected and show signs of acute ...
Obituaries /
BY: Wayne Niou, MD
November 2019
On 9 August 2019, the world lost one of its dearest and most ...