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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Katharine McKeen, MD, MBA, FCFP December 2022
... more frequent and more severe. Flooding affects not only health but also infrastructure and communities. Between 80% ... expected to increase due to climate change and will impact health. Flooding impacts health directly, as well as indirectly through infrastructure ...
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 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sahil Kumar, MSc January/February 2022
... goal of gender-affirming surgical care is to maximize the health and well-being of transgender and gender-diverse ... Surgery Program BC, located within Vancouver Coastal Health, became Western Canada’s first and only centre to ... multidisciplinary team of surgical specialists and allied health care providers provide shared care throughout the ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Veronic Clair, MD, PhD, CCFP, FRCPC May 2022
... General recently issued an advisory on the youth mental health crisis, which was worsened by COVID-19, calling for ... create comprehensive strategies for child and youth mental health and substance use (CYMHSU), emphasizing prevention. In ... Even pre-COVID-19, BC was not on track to meet its mental health and substance use targets. The situation is similar ...
News / BY: David J. Esler, MD, CCFP(EM) July/August 2022
... alternatives to an emergency-department visit, and while health information phone lines (e.g., 811) are discussed, ... the emergency department in assisting patients with mental-health crises. Nor is there guidance as to how patients ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Raheesa Jina, BSc, MM October 2022
... in the 2014 guideline. Of note, the 2002 Women’s Health Initiative study consisted of two randomized clinical ... postintervention and recently released long-term Women’s Health Initiative data. After being followed for 9 to 14 ... 95% CI, 0.94-1.95; P = .11).[ 7 ] In a second Women’s Health Initiative trial, women with prior hysterectomy ...