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Premise / BY: R. Eric Demers, BSc, CCPA, CD September 2023
... is required to deliver safe, effective, and affordable health care. Challenges to health care delivery in Canada include the country’s ... in higher negative impacts on social determinants of health in at-risk populations, including Indigenous people, ...
President's Comment / BY: Joshua Greggain, MD November 2023
... centre as we navigate and help build the future of BC’s health care system. We need those who can lead with humility ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Stephen Lam, MD, FRCPC April 2023
... 2014.[ 9 ] In 2016, the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care recommended annual low-dose computed tomography ... net benefit).[ 11 ] The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care is in the process of updating its guideline. In September 2020, based on the strength of evidence and health economic analyses,[ 12 , 13 ] the BC Ministry of ...
Obituaries / BY: Nis Schmidt, MD October 2023
... be missed is almost trite. We need more like him in our health care system. —Nis Schmidt, MD Vancouver Obituaries ...
Letters / BY: Petra Wildgoose, MD, CCFP, MPH December 2023
... early-onset colorectal cancer requires the vigilance of health care providers.” Diagnosis cannot depend strictly on the vigilance of health care providers when 59% of the population does not ... to the primary care provider.[ 1 , 2 ] Vigilance of health care providers assumes that providers are educated on ...
Editorials, COVID-19 / BY: Brian Day, MB March 2022
... space was developed.” —Terry Lake, BC Minister of Health, May 2016 It is with great reluctance that I write ... are inundated daily with media stories of COVID leading to health worker burnout and shortages, hospital and ICU bed ... paying with their lives. Those responsible for running our health system should have seen this coming. Both prior and ...
MDs To Be / BY: Nora Tong, BDSc April 2022
... samples has also changed significantly since the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) first publication of its ... fertility concerns should include questions about general health, testicular symptoms, duration of infertility, sexual ... in a coal mine, indicating a global decline in the general health of males because low sperm counts have been associated ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM June 2022
... and Asia. The BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) Public Health Laboratory also offered this standard two-tiered test ... the early 1990s to May 2021. Since June 2021, the Public Health Laboratory has adhered to a new algorithm recommended ... immunoassay [ Figure 6 ]. In addition, the BCCDC Public Health Laboratory uses western blots on suspected samples ...
News September 2022
... for offering their expertise in the field of women’s health and providing guidance throughout the article-drafting ... psychiatry, addictions medicine, and reproductive mental health, with an emphasis on psychotherapy. Dr Hunt hopes that ... student with coauthor Dr Philip Edgcumbe while health care providers and students were challenged with ...
Obituaries / BY: Kevin Elwood, MD November 2022
... with Overseas Missionary Fellowship as a consultant in health in the Philippines. Don’s lifelong interest in ... short course, which was eventually adopted by the World Health Organization in 1994 and subsequently expanded around ... the globe. The strategy was later applied to other lung-health problems including asthma, COPD, pneumonia, and ...