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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Eileen M. Wong, MD, CCFP, FCFP June 2025
... whether they live in a formally participating community.[ 2 ] In BC, e-scooter users must be 16 years of age or older, ...
Editorials / BY: Michael Schwandt, MD, MPH, FRCPC October 2025
... 10% of staff from the already-shrinking organization.[ 2 ] The federal government has described this downsizing as a ... following the PHAC’s growth during the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, the PHAC has ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Christie Wall, MPH April 2025
... in 2024, with fentanyl present in 85.1% of deaths.[ 1,2 ] Even when a drug toxicity event is survived, it can cause ... Control’s (BCCDC’s) Take Home Naloxone program, 2 659 421 naloxone kits have been shipped to distribution ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC July/August 2025
... in the 1970s to diagnose and treat serious infections.[ 2,3 ] In more recent decades, AI applications in digital ...
Premise / BY: Robin Routledge, MD, FRCPC November 2025
... their access to care, and lead to care avoidance.[ 2 ] This article compares these two approaches, drawing on ... to racist exclusion from health care. In Plain Sight ,[ 2 ] a 2020 commissioned report, details Indigenous-specific ... morbidity and mortality, with the subsequent “Era 2” to be one of quality assurance measurements. Berwick ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Ali Okhowat, MD, MPH, CCFP January/February 2025
... bark in a disease state known as sooty bark disease.[ 1,2 ] The descriptor “sooty” refers to the mats of fungal ...
Letters / BY: Anthony Walter, MD May 2025
... Should I continue my habit of taking a single dose of 2 grams of amoxicillin prior to dental procedures? According ...
Review Articles / BY: Moroj A. Aldarmasi, MD October 2025
... which results in acute cardiovascular disease.[ 2 ] This pathological process begins early in life and is ... the overall size of lesions that are larger than 1 mm 2  and the highest calcific density of lesions that are more ... using a CT data set with slice thickness ranging from 2.5 to 3.0 mm.[ 13 ] The Society of Cardiovascular Computed ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Annukka K. Lindell, PhD March 2025
... ] . From Renaissance paintings[ 1 ] to high-school photos[ 2 ] to selfies uploaded to social media,[ 3 ] left-cheek bias ... collections of painted[ 6 ] and photographic portraits,[ 2 ] including selfies[ 7 ] and photos uploaded to Instagram.[ ... artists,[ 6 ] is evident in photographic portraits,[ 2 ] and is reversed in artists’ self-portraits.[ 9 ] ...
Original Research / BY: Olivia F. Hunter July/August 2025
... with the largest proportion of patients waiting more than 2 months for elective surgery.[ 2 ] In a study conducted between March and June 2020, 38% of ... procedures that had a demand of less than 5, a value of 2 was input for calculability. All data were publicly ...