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News March 2021
... is the first to suggest a link between this diet and brain health for Parkinson disease. The MIND diet combines aspects ... Research Centre, the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, and the Division of Neurology in the UBC Faculty of ... MIND diet showed a more significant impact on women’s health, whereas the Mediterranean diet did for men. The ...
Obituaries / BY: Kate Zahir May 2021
... and Nuclear Medicine Subcommittee for the BC Ministry of Health just prior to his retirement in 2002. With any ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ilona Hale, MD, FCFPC June 2021
The term chronic disease has been defined by several public health agencies, including the CDC and WHO. While somewhat ... disease in which abnormal or excess adiposity impairs health, increases the risk of long-term medical ... not only have an elevated BMI but also experience health consequences (metabolic, physical, and psychological ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD September 2021
Working in health care leads to a one-sided perspective of the ... without expectation of praise or reward.” My wife’s health care journey has brought us into contact with many ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD November 2021
... When faced with the abbreviation MI , for example, most health care providers automatically register that the ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: David R. Richardson, MD January/February 2021
... that for a lot of the problems people experience with ill health, other things are going on in their lives that you can ... youth psychiatry, then from child and youth psychiatry to health systems work with Doctors of BC. How do we get more ... It just makes sense for them to do contract work at mental health or to do a contract here or there. I’m not surprised ...
Obituaries / BY: Nancy Kent, MD April 2021
... fellowship at BC Women’s Hospital and a Master of Health Sciences in Epidemiology at UBC, completing them in ... Training Initiative in Research in the Reproductive Health Sciences CIHR/Health Canada scholarship, among many others. Her first CIHR ...
News July/August 2021
... summary to guide conversations and questions with their health care team. The program also provides tools for health care teams, including a decision support algorithm ... UBC in partnership with Perinatal Services BC, provincial health authorities, the Ministry of Health, as well as ...
Clinical Articles / BY: L.S. Yefet, MD October 2021
... British Columbia declared this opioid crisis a public health emergency in 2016.[ 15 ] One response to this crisis ... for the study period was created based on the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Drug Statistics ... were included, and each was searched within the Health Canada Drug Product Database. In total, 691 drug ...
Obituaries / BY: Vera Frinton, MD December 2021
... in Nepal establishing and providing maternal and child health care programs. He later also achieved a diploma in ...