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News, COVID-19 November 2020
... protection against the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. Dr Horacio Bach and his team hope a temporary ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Kevin E. Liang, MD, CCFP March 2020
... cold water immersion, drowning, and other injuries.[ 2 ] Over the longer term, loss of coastal land will lead to ... Food security Sea levels are predicted to rise by up to 1.2 metres in the Fraser River Delta by 2100,[ 6 ] where BC’s ...
Beyond Medicine, COVID-19 / BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS June 2020
... and the procedures they carry out. Figure 1 and Figure 2 show screenshots of the website’s map function that ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Armon Molavi, MD October 2020
... and economic impact than all illegal drugs combined.[ 2 ] Alcohol is legal, highly available, and more socially ... It is a common primary care issue affecting approximately 2% to 9% of family practice patients.[ 3 ] The 12-month ... Withdrawal Severity Scale (PAWSS) scoring system [ Figure 2 ] for assessing the risk of alcohol withdrawal syndrome.[ ...
Premise / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC July/August 2020
... been vastly underrepresented in clinical trials.[ 2 ] Black women even more so. In 2019, Nnorom and colleagues ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC November 2020
... was reported in 1984, and the egg was fertilized in vivo.[ 2 ] An anonymous egg donor was inseminated, and then uterine ... was transferred into the intended mother’s uterus.[ 2 , 3 ] In the early 1980s, assisted reproductive technology ... and live birth rates, even with IVF, are less than 2%.[ 15 , 16 ] Conversely, advancing paternal age has not ...
News March 2020
... as prescribed have a reduced risk of developing type 2 diabetes compared to lupus patients who do not. There is no ... has the ability to potentially reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes. Using BC health data that include information on ... those who did had a 39% lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes. From prior research, researchers know that an ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Li Rita Zhang, MPH September 2020
... years be screened for breast cancer with mammography every 2 to 3 years.[ 2 ] Despite well-documented evidence of the benefits of ...
Premise / BY: H.M.K. McGillivray, BSc December 2020
... of the major cancers: prostate, breast, and colorectal.[ 2 ] Screening makes it possible to detect and treat cancers ... early, increasing the chances of a good prognosis.[ 2 ] However, screening invariably leads to more cancer ... for cancer diagnoses and treatment in Canada rose from $2.9 billion in 2005 to $7.5 billion in 2012.[ 9 ] Additional ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Derek C. Chang, MD April 2020
... and Nurse Practitioners of BC,[ 1 ] Moms Stop the Harm,[ 2 ] the Canadian Association of People Who Use Drugs,[ 3 ] ...