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Specialist Services Committee / BY: Tiffany Wong, MD, FRCPC January/February 2022
... to remove erroneous labels of childhood allergy.”[ 1 ] For me, de-labeling penicillin allergies has become a ...
Editorials, COVID-19 / BY: Yazdan Mirzanejad, MD, DTMH, FRCP, FACP, MRCP May 2022
... common diagnoses in inpatient and outpatient medicine.[ 1 , 2 ] We are facing many emerging infectious diseases ... the most up-to-date information. The first article in part 1 of this theme issue provides an overview of the development ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Sukhmeet Singh Sachal, MPH July/August 2022
... populations, compared with the White British population.[ 1 ] It is a necessity of living in an antiracist society to ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC November 2022
... and clearly, I am late to the game.[ 1 ] Dr Csikszentmihalyi’s TED Talk has over 7 million ... by a myriad of high performers and world leaders.[ 1 , 2 ] Flow experiences are those during which one’s sense ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Abdullah Al Mamun, MBBS, MPH March 2022
... therapy (DOT) was not evidence driven. Practice settled on 1 or more weeks, predicated on the incorrect belief that ... reduce the risk of relapse or of antibiotic resistance.[ 1 , 2 ] There is increasing evidence that shorter durations ... 5 days of nitrofurantoin, 3 days of cotrimoxazole, or 1 day of fosfomycin.[ 4 ] DOT for nitrofurantoin and other ...
News, COVID-19 September 2022
... from symptoms post-COVID-19. Each monthly ECHO session is 1 hour long and starts with a 20-minute presentation from ...
News / BY: David J. Esler, MD, CCFP(EM) April 2022
... Frontier Centre for Public Policy, 2021. ISBN: 978-1-7776577-4-1. Paperback, 264 pages. Susan Martinuk is a Vancouver-based ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Azzra Mangalji, MD July/August 2022
... care services, with a common form being virtual care.[ 1 , 2 ] Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine was used ... a multiphysician primary care office in Langley, BC, from 1 November 2020 to 15 February 2021. Approval for this study ... A Likert rating scale from poor (corresponding value of 1) to excellent (5) was used in the survey. Additionally, ...
Beyond Medicine, COVID-19 / BY: Jocelyn Y. Wong October 2022
... from the COVID-19 vaccine could attack the placenta.[ 1 ] Subsequently, a myth propagated that antibodies that ... with placental proteins called syncytins. Syncytin-1 protein acts in cell-to-cell adhesion, playing an essential ... spike protein and compared it with placental syncytin-1, finding no significant similarities in their amino acid ...
Letters / BY: Roger Purnell, MBChB, FRCSC March 2022
... interpretations. Causative factors appear to include (1) misguided patient demand, (2) a lack of knowledge of ... Estimates put the number of MRIs done in BC annually at 1 per 21 people, and 1 per 18.5 nationally. Within the central NHA catchment area, ...