Obituaries /
BY: B. De Freitas, MDCM, FRCPC
January/February 2021
... and provided some afternoons to the New Westminster Mental Health Centre. He retired from hospital practice at age 75 ... continued to provide psychiatric care in Vancouver mental health clinics until his late 80s. He was a most congenial ...
News, COVID-19
March 2021
The BC Centre for Disease Control and the BC Ministry of Health have produced the BC Care Bundle for Supporting ... COVID-19 recommendations from the BCCDC and Ministry of Health ...
College Library /
BY: Karen MacDonell, PhD, MLIS
June 2021
... Emerging Adults . 2020, e-book. “Oppression and Mental Health,” chapter in: Oppression: A Social Determinant of Health . 2012, physical book. The College Library’s online ...
Obituaries /
BY: Patrick Fay, MD
September 2021
... for her patients, helping many find a way through serious health and life challenges. Her personal experience with ...
News
November 2021
... to pay privately or who work within the boundaries of health authority sites. Accessible through the Provincial ...
News
January/February 2021
... collaboration between Doctors of BC and the BC Ministry of Health, published and revised several BC Guidelines. New ...
MDs To Be /
BY: Raiya Suleman, BHSc
May 2021
... requires considerable thought and action from the Canadian health care and political systems. A growing challenge among ... connections and their ties to mental and physical health, limited initiatives exist that target social ... loneliness among older adults is shown to have negative health consequences. For example, loneliness is correlated ...
News, COVID-19
July/August 2021
... by Dr Babak Shadgan, a researcher at the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, the study concluded that IRT ... active and well-developed COVID-19 infection. Underlying health conditions, stress, pregnancy, certain medications, ... screening and early diagnosis. Individuals with underlying health conditions, such as heart or liver disease, immune ...
College Library /
BY: Chris Vriesema-Magnuson
September 2021
... about providing care in BC is also available from many health authorities. A notable example is Trans Care BC from the Provincial Health Care Authority ( www.phsa.ca/transcarebc/health-professionals ). The site offers information about the ...
Premise, COVID-19 /
BY: Nickie Mathew, MD, MSc, ABPN, FRCPC, ABPM
January/February 2021
... 1 ] Since the opioid overdose crisis was declared a public health emergency in 2016, nearly 6000 illicit drug overdose ... mostly just fentanyl.” Interactions between mental health and substance use John Doe explained what he observed ... about the relationship between addiction and mental health: “It’s a lot. I had conversations with my ...