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Beyond Medicine / BY: Delilah Topic, MD, FRCPC November 2022
... immune from illness and chronic disease. Living with type 1 diabetes for 29 years, as well as a metabolic bone ...
Clinical Articles / BY: barbara findlay, MA, LLB, QC March 2022
... Competing interests None declared. Footnotes 1.    The Age of Majority Act RSBC 1996 c 7 sets the age ... 1996 c 223. Section 17 provides the following:     17(1) In this section:     “health care” means anything ...  Researchers of transgender teen health found that 1 in 3 youth did not have an adult in their family that they ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Jennifer Balfour, MD, FRCPC September 2022
... up-to-date with routine immunizations in 2019 and 2020.[ 1 ] COVID-19 has resulted in further decreases in ... immunization rate in grade 6 girls in BC was 66.1%; this rate dropped to 28.1% in 2020. The rates were similar for grade 6 boys. ...
Letters / BY: Mark Elliott, MD, FRCPC January/February 2022
The amount of clinical research taking place is excessive.[ 1 ] Out of the 6 million articles published in a year, half ...
WorkSafeBC, COVID-19 / BY: Michelle Tan, MD, CCFP, MBA April 2022
... the claim owner, call the RACE Line (604 696-2131 or 1 877 696-2131 toll-free), or indicate on a Form 11 that they ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: O. Maheshwari, MD November 2022
... were the leading cause of disability in Canada,[ 1 ] with one in five Canadians experiencing a mental health ... developing a sustainable administrative structure [ Figure 1 ]. Continual evaluation of the in-person program showed ... anonymized evaluations. Virtual groups were offered within 1 week of in-person groups being canceled, and within 2 ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD March 2022
... average wing speed of a hummingbird and the cube root of 1 367 631. Following my initial flawed interview attempt, ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: British Columbia COVID-19 Therapeutics Committee May 2022
... as being over 55 years of age or having a comorbidity.[ 1 , 2 ] Adults were offered treatment if they had mild to ... and 5.3% versus 0.7% for remdesivir ).[ 1 , 2 ] As Omicron causes less-severe disease than Delta and ... risk of hospitalization in the Omicron wave decreased to 1.2% from the 6.3% observed during the Delta wave in patients ...
Letters / BY: Ruth Habte, MD September 2022
... $50 million but would save up to $95 million per year.[ 1 ] Another study in Colorado provided long-acting reversible ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Olivia Sampson, MD, CCFP, MPH, FRCPC, ABPM December 2022
... remind them to call WorkSafeBC Teleclaim (604 231-8888 or 1 888 967-5377 toll-free). Q: I am an emergency room ... WorkSafeBC Claims call centre at 604 231-8888 or 1 888 967-5377, Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Q: Can I ... a medical advisor via the RACE app or call 604 696-2131 or 1 877 696-2131 toll-free. Physicians are available Monday to ...