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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: David A. McVea, MD, PhD January/February 2019
... rooms throughout the Lower Mainland over the course of 5 months, complaining of abdominal pain, dizziness, weight ... which showed significantly elevated blood lead at 5.60 umol/L (115.94 ug/dL). The BC Drug and Poison ... months, and his blood level decreased to 0.99 umol/L (20.5 ug/dL).  The patient had been taking an ayruvedic herbal ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Elizabeth Wiley, MD, JD, MPH May 2019
... widespread and likely to persist following evacuation.[ 5 ] In the context of disasters, health care providers and ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) November 2019
... tread is at least 13 inches and the pitch is 28 degrees.[ 5 ] Other authors have focused on visual cues, such as ...
News March 2019
... with mental health and substance use issues, and the last 5 working with people on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lauri McCoy MD, CFPC July/August 2019
... and Aging Clinical Frailty Scale (CSHA Scale). A category 5 clinical frailty score correlates with declining function ... activities of daily living and predicts a 50% mortality in 5 years.[ 2 ] If we add the stepwise trajectory of the normal ... for our patients. One can see that a frailty score of 5 added to one to two hospitalizations in a year ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Troy Grennan, MD, DTM&H, MSc, FRCPC October 2019
... significantly impact the health of both mother and fetus.[ 5 ] As a majority of infants born with congenital syphilis ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Afsaneh Moradi January/February 2019
... networks are a key element of patient medical homes,[ 5 ] enabling doctors to rely on each other for practice ...
Premise / BY: Andre C. Piver, MD, FCFP June 2019
... read – how reading online is hurting our brains.”[ 5 ] The research findings of Professor Maryanne Wolf, an ...
Premise / BY: Mark Elliott, MD, FRCPC December 2019
... mat in Oregon was found to be 2500 acres in size.[ 5 ] What is so fascinating about mycelium is that fungi ...
President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP April 2019
... can work together complementarily and practice to scope.[ 5 ] But I have further reflected on this question. While we ...