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Obituaries / BY: Richard K. Elwood, MB, BCh, MRCP(UK), FRCPC September 2011
... in the New York City Department of Health. He came to BC in 1988 and worked as a clinician in the Division of Tuberculosis control at the BC Centre for Disease Control until 1997, although he continued ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Kevin Elwood, MD October 2011
... Director, TB Control This article is the opinion of the BC Centre for Disease Control and has not been peer reviewed by the  BCMJ  Editorial Board. BC Centre for Disease Control Those other mycobacteria ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Susan Dixon June 2011
... grant to develop a participatory ergonomics guide for BC workplaces. The grant application process WorkSafeBC’s ... basis, targeting specific issues of interest to WorkSafe­BC. Systematic reviews, completed or in progress, include ... all Canadian workers, and a unique partnership with the Centre for Health Services and Policy Re­search (CHSPR) at ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Richard T. Lester, MD, June 2011
... such as diabetes and asthma.[ 5 ] Our aim at the BC Centre for Disease Control is to assist in the control and ... prevention of communicable diseases among the people of BC and to defend and promote health among vulnerable ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: David M. Patrick, MD, FRCPC, MHSc September 2011
BC physicians are playing an active role in rethinking ... the introduction of a few very resistant isolates to BC, we see relatively low levels of Enterobacteriaceae spp. ... M. Patrick, MD, FRCPC, MHSc —Rachel M. McKay, MSc BC Centre for Disease Control This article is the opinion of the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Robert D.H. MacMillan, MD, FRCSC, November 2011
In general, men in BC have poorer health outcomes than women. Traditionally, ... and associated metabolic syndrome are not routine in BC.  • Men age 65 to 84 consume the lion’s share of the ... group men’s health session in a fitness club or yoga centre.  Such sessions of 8 to 12 men, ideally all younger ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jack Teng, PhD, April 2011
... a human incidence rate of less than 0.1/100000 in all of BC.[ 3 ] However, there is in­creasing public concern and ... collected from humans for analysis at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC), resulting in the ... their main disease host for the presence of pathogens. In BC, tick-borne patho­gens are maintained in the environment ...
News September 2011
... Shaw was recently appointed VP, medical affairs, at BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre. She previously served as medical director of the ... News Dr Dorothy Shaw new VP of medical affairs at BC Women’s ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brian Evoy, PhD, May 2011
... Board. The number of divisions of family practice in BC continues to grow, with four now representing communities ... desire to develop solutions that put the patient at the centre. The East Kootenay Division is looking forward to the ...
Letters / BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC October 2011
We thank  Ms Souch  for her ongoing dialogue with the BC Centre for Disease Control about Lyme disease in British ... of the many Lyme-related studies that have been done in BC and was intended to provide physicians with an update and ...