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Letters / BY: Spencer Cleave, MD, CCFP November 2025
... physical abuse, emotional neglect, and sexual trauma.[ 1,2 ] This trauma contributes to profound attachment ...
Premise / BY: John A. Cairns, MD, FRCPC May 2025
... the patient’s response to given therapeutic agents.[ 2 ] Inherent to the strategy of precision medicine is the ... The ratio of doctors per 1000 population increased from 2.0 in 2000 to 2.7 by 2019, but the OECD average is 3.4, and Canada’s ...
Clinical Case Reports / BY: Sydney Sparanese, MD September 2025
... (inorganic arsenic), or carbon (organic arsenic).[ 1,2 ] Inorganic arsenic has been recognized as toxic since ... water and groundwater in Canada is very low, usually 1 to 2 μg/L.[ 7-9 ] However, localized high concentrations of ... distress, hepatotoxicity, neuropathy, and skin changes.[ 2,3 , 11,12 ] A symmetric, sensorimotor polyneuropathy that ...
Review Articles / BY: Marina Viñeta Páramo, MBBS December 2025
... in February. Virtually all children are infected by 2 years of age. The risk of severe RSV disease peaks within 3 months of birth.[ 2 ] Although most infants recover within a few days, ... bronchiolitis or pneumonia requiring hospitalization.[ 2 ] RSV immunization options In May 2024, the National ...
Clinical Articles, Original Research / BY: Rebecca Z. Xu, MD March 2025
... opioid misuse and opioid-related overdose and mortality.[ 2 , 3 , 5-7 ] The prevalence of opioid misuse (i.e., the use ... as the probability of continuing use at 1 year and 2 years after first prescription. The relationship between ... long-term use [ Figure 1 ] . Non-long-term users In total, 2 899 755 prescriptions were associated with ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Eileen M. Wong, MD, CCFP, FCFP June 2025
... whether they live in a formally participating community.[ 2 ] In BC, e-scooter users must be 16 years of age or older, ...
Editorials / BY: Michael Schwandt, MD, MPH, FRCPC October 2025
... 10% of staff from the already-shrinking organization.[ 2 ] The federal government has described this downsizing as a ... following the PHAC’s growth during the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, the PHAC has ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Christie Wall, MPH April 2025
... in 2024, with fentanyl present in 85.1% of deaths.[ 1,2 ] Even when a drug toxicity event is survived, it can cause ... Control’s (BCCDC’s) Take Home Naloxone program, 2 659 421 naloxone kits have been shipped to distribution ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC July/August 2025
... in the 1970s to diagnose and treat serious infections.[ 2,3 ] In more recent decades, AI applications in digital ...
Premise / BY: Robin Routledge, MD, FRCPC November 2025
... their access to care, and lead to care avoidance.[ 2 ] This article compares these two approaches, drawing on ... to racist exclusion from health care. In Plain Sight ,[ 2 ] a 2020 commissioned report, details Indigenous-specific ... morbidity and mortality, with the subsequent “Era 2” to be one of quality assurance measurements. Berwick ...