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September 2012
BC’s new Child & Family Research Imaging Facility is a ... Provincial Health Services Authority on the campus of BC Children’s Hospital, BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre, and BC Mental Health and Addictions Research ...
Editorials /
BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG
September 2012
... the Shaughnessy Hospital site, by now transformed into BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre. The program’s members then had their first ... entity) had to find a new sponsor. The administration of BC Women’s agreed to take over the program, and did so in ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Carolyn Gotay, PhD,
April 2012
... breast cancer risk do not reflect their actual risk. A BC-based study of 761 women found that women’s ratings of ... a grant from the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, BC/Yukon, to the University of British Columbia (Carolyn ... The clinic is located at BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre in Vancouver. The phone number is 604 822-9548 and the ...
News
September 2012
... has received five awards at the 2012 Excellence in BC Health Care Awards—three Gold Apple awards and two ... employees and reward innovation and best practices by BC’s publicly funded health care providers. The winners ... at BC Cancer Agency/Children’s & Women’s Health Centre, and Dennis Schweers, biomedical engineer at BC Cancer ...
Obituaries /
BY: Brian Warriner, MD,
November 2012
... at the West Coast General Hospital in Port Alberni, BC, and was the founder of that department. She joined the ... Anesthesia Research and the Jean Templeton Hugill Research Centre at UBC are named in her memory. Jean was a mentor to ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Ruth Elwood Martin, MD, FCFP, MPH
December 2012
... ] individuals were admitted to the correctional system in BC, of whom approximately 10% were female. Women in BC are incarcerated in either the federal or the provincial ... in one of two facilities in BC: the Alouette Correctional Centre for Women in Maple Ridge or the Prince George Regional ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Travis Hottes, MSc,
March 2012
... gonorrhoeae due to drug resistance.[ 1 ] Data from BC and elsewhere globally now warn against further impending ... of cephalosporin resistance have been documented in BC as of January 2012, we have an opportunity to stave off ... of IM treatment for MSM and pharyngeal infections. The BC Centre for Disease Control has consulted with numerous ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Wei-Shuen King, MD, FRCPC,
January/February 2012
... a product of questionable clinical benefit. In 2003, the BC Transfusion Medicine Advisory Group (TMAG) audited albumin ... Use in Adults in British Columbia, a joint effort of the BC Provincial Blood Coordinating Office, TMAG, and a group ... in the 2009 audit. The Children’s and Women’s Health Centre of BC was excluded because the 2007 guidelines are ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC
April 2012
... is a reportable communicable disease in BC. In 2008 BCCDC mailed surveys to all physicians in the ... survey gives insight into physician treatment of LD in BC. In general, physicians have a low threshold for treating ... and Alecia Kallos. This article is the opinion of the BC Centre for Disease Control and has not been peer reviewed by ...