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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Brandon Yau, MD, MPH, CCFP, FRCPC October 2018
... of as the provision of sterile injection supplies to people who use drugs or supervised consumption sites, harm ... and delivery of policy, programs, and services to benefit people who use substances, their families, and the community ... needle exchange in BC. From 2007 to 2016, HIV diagnoses in people who inject drugs declined from 118 to 16 cases, ...
President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP June 2018
... overflowing on my desk. I went to medical school to help people, not push paper. Forms for consults. Forms for ...
Clinical Articles / BY: C. Bruce Verchere, PhD November 2018
... and have limited therapeutic options. With 1.4 million people impacted by prediabetes or diabetes in British ... risk in vulnerable populations, including Indigenous people and youth with mental illness. These studies have ... laboratory-based discoveries to improving the lives of people with diabetes. Islet biology is clearly a recognized ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD April 2018
... I have called it home since preschool, and love the people and beauty of our province. I can’t imagine residing ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: David Unger, MD December 2018
... themselves are potentially harmful, and that they expose people to risks of addiction—an increasingly fatal disease. ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD March 2018
... example in raising my own children and am proud of the people they have become (not sure this has much to do with ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD November 2018
... a good thing?” “My advice is to hang out with people who get the flu shot and stay away from the sickies. ...
President's Comment / BY: Trina Larsen Soles, MD January/February 2018
... a network as “a group or system of interconnected people or things.” A community is defined as “a group of people living in the same place or having a particular ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Wong, MD, MPH, CCFP, FRCPC May 2018
... LGV infections are symptomatic, it is more likely that people living with HIV have a higher risk of acquiring LGV. ... MSM who are “out” to their health care providers or people living with HIV) are overrepresented in the LGV case ...
News September 2018
People with social anxiety disorder benefit from group ... in their lives. Without treatment, the disorder can impair people’s functioning at school, work, and relationships. ...