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President's Comment / BY: Geoffrey Appleton, MB, May 2008
... no different.  In my 18 years of being involved with the BC Medical Association, only a handful of AGMs have been well ... best example was the 1980 AGM held in Penticton when the BC government introduced legislation to ban “balance ... as well as the recently opened state-of-the-art sports centre.  I think we can anticipate that the physicians of ...
News November 2008
According to the McCreary BC Adolescent Health Survey (published in the July issue of ... and teen pregnancy has declined. Since 1992 the McCreary Centre Society has conducted the surveys every 5 or 6 years ... is Dr Elizabeth Saewyc, research director at the McCreary Centre Society and associate professor in the School of ... . News Teen sexual health improved among BC students ...
Letters / BY: Stephen D. Anderson, MD, FRCPC January/February 2008
In his November 2007  BC Medical Journal  article,[ 1 ] Dr H. Davis ex­pressed ... such as the programs run at the GF Strong Rehabilitation Centre. Physiatrists tend to take a holistic ap­proach to ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD April 2008
... an official affiliate of the Canadian Cochrane Network and Centre ( www.ccnc.cochrane.org ). This is the first time a ... EBPG’s reviews are available on our web site, WorkSafe­BC.com, in the Health Care Provider section (look under ... medical and surgical specialists and physiotherapists in BC. The guidelines can be downloaded from the web site. Input ...
Letters / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC May 2008
... 1 ] Dr Albrecht outlined elegantly the assistance of the BC Poison Control Centre in the confirmation of the diagnosis and the ...
News January/February 2008
... complemented her studies as a research assistant at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS and the BC Centre for Disease Control. She has performed laboratory ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM April 2008
... is a potentially fatal infection that physicians in BC should consider in febrile, returning travelers. ... disease. Malaria is a reportable communicable disease in BC and both physicians and laboratories are reminded to ... Wong, BSc  —Judith L. Isaac-Renton, MD, DPH, FRCPC BC Centre for Disease Control Laboratory Services, PHSA Further ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Mark Gilbert, MD, MHSc, FRCPC January/February 2008
... that same year infectious syphilis rates began to rise in BC, to 7.7 cases per 100000 in 2006. Most recently, this ... 90% of specimens collected for prenatal blood screening in BC include testing for syphilis. All pregnant women should be ... and requires specialist care. STI Clinic staff at the BC Centre for Disease Control follow up on all positive syphilis ...
News / BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS July/August 2008
... please contact Johnson Inc. at Walnut Grove Commerce Centre, 9440 202nd Street, Suite 201, Langley, BC V1M 4A6 Tel: 604 881-8820 • Toll free: 888 412-8822 ...
Premise / BY: Marshall Dahl, MD, PhD, FRCPC November 2008
... people with type 2 diabetes. The ACCORD study is a multi-centre, randomized study to determine if aggressive treatment ... of this study for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. BC’s Therapeutics Initiative (TI) published a newsletter on the subject.  [2] Endocrinologists in BC took issue with TI’s analysis of a press release and ...