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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Lorraine McIntyre, MSc July/August 2013
... we be concerned about commercially harvested shellfish in BC? Definitely. Three separate outbreaks of shellfish ... sought care in hospital emergency departments. Thus far in BC, marine biotoxin illnesses have been limited to paralytic ... Contact the British Columbia Drug and Poison Information Centre for inquiries around unusual toxic ex­posures (1 800 ...
News October 2013
Five recipients in BC have been awarded grants totaling $1 million by the Arthritis Society, BC and Yukon Divi-sion. The grants will fund research ... Co-lumbia and research scientist at the Arthritis Research Centre of Canada, received the Young Investigator Operating ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Paul J. Yong, MD, PhD, FRCSC June 2013
... requires an integrated, interdisciplinary approach at a centre offering advanced diag­nostics, a full range of ... 5 , 11 ] In recognition of the need for such care, the BC Wo­men’s Centre for Pelvic Pain and Endometriosis was ... in the province has been provided by two gynecologists at BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre. Over time it has ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Tyler W. Smith, MD, MHSc, FRCPC April 2013
... (the five-test panel costs $292.09 per patient in BC, based on the 2012 Medical Service Plan laboratory fee ... a formal assessment of HT test ordering by physicians in BC. We began by surveying academic hematologists and other ... Hospital (VGH), a tertiary care and academic referral centre, to assess the volume of provincial HT tests performed ...
News June 2013
... team is led by Dr Poul Sorensen, senior scientist at the BC Cancer Agency Research Centre and scientist at the Child and Family Research Institute at BC Children’s Hospital (BCCH).  The Vancouver team has ...
News May 2013
The new Complex Chronic Disease Program (CCDP) located at BC Wo­men’s Hospital and Health Centre is now accepting patient referrals. The CCDP assists ... 604 875-2061 or faxing 604 875-3738.      News First BC Complex Chronic Disease Program opens ...
MDs To Be / BY: Pretty Verma, December 2013
... as a family physician and director of the sexual assault centre in Maple, Ontario. When she moved to BC to join family in Ladner, she continued her practice and ...
News October 2013
The BC Centre for Disease Control has announced the expansion of the ... The HPV vaccine Cervarix will now be offered at no cost to BC women 26 years of age and under, and born before 1994. The ...
News March 2013
Lung cancer specialists at the BC Cancer Agency now have access to a three-dimensional ... diagnosis, staging, and care for lung cancer patients in BC. The equipment, funded by the BC Cancer Foundation, is the ... has been installed at the BC Cancer Agency’s Vancouver Centre.  The technology converts two-dimensional images from ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Mel Krajden, OBC, MD, FRCPC June 2013
... fail to materialize. In order to stem the HCV epidemic in BC we need to unite the voices of affected communities, ... into action.  —Mel Krajden, MD PHSA Laboratories, BC Centre for Disease Control —Julio S.G. Montaner, MD BC ...