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Clinical Articles / BY: Armon Molavi, MD October 2020
... is responsible for substantial morbidity and mortality.[ 1 ] Numerous resources have been committed to managing health ... The 12-month prevalence of AUD in North America is 8.5%.[ 1 ] In Canada, at least half of all alcohol consumed is in ... work, interpersonal relationships, and physical health.[ 1 ] Treatment of alcohol use disorder Several studies have ...
Letters / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD January/February 2020
... that they do represent one aspect of the opioid crisis.[ 1 ] The authors outlined some descriptive epidemiology of the ...
Premise / BY: Mark Elliott, MD, FRCPC April 2020
... principle, which is sometimes called group selection[ 1 ] and sometimes called cooperation.[ 2 ] Even Darwin had ...
Council on Health Promotion, COVID-19 / BY: A. Maria Chung, MDCM July/August 2020
... affected seniors living in long-term care. Only 1% of Canadians reside in long-term care, but these deaths represent 80% of all COVID deaths in Canada.[ 1 ] This statistic is a result of issues that have been ... national standards of care (including an increase to 4.1 hours of care per day), and place limits on private, ...
Letters / BY: Nilanga Aki Bandara, BSc November 2020
Dr Dixon’s essay in the July 2020 issue of the BCMJ [ 1 ] is a powerful reminder of our need to consistently ... understand their unique cultural values and experiences.[ 1 ] Recent research[ 2 ] highlights the enormous benefits of ... systems-level changes tackling racism are needed as well.[ 1 ] —Nilanga Aki Bandara, BSc Vancouver —Vahid Mehrnoush, ...
Editorials / BY: Jeevyn K. Chahal, MD March 2020
... I went to spend a weekend with my friend, and on day 1 everything was great, but on day 2 I awoke to a chill in ... , “Neurotoxicity of fragrance compounds: A review,”[ 1 ] states that most fragrance compounds belong to one of ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Drona Rasali, PhD, FACE May 2020
... prominent owing to higher prevalence among older adults.[ 1 ] Moreover, the co-occurrence of multiple diseases leads to ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Ernest Salcedo September 2020
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Premise / BY: H.M.K. McGillivray, BSc December 2020
... can be attributed in part to us simply living longer.[ 1 ] However, the increased use of diagnostic technology is ... single comparable CT scan now takes less than one-third of 1 second, meaning images can be produced 3000 times faster.[ ... biopharmaceutical manufacturer Endocyte Inc. for US$2.1 billion in order to acquire the rights to market PSMA-617, ...
Editorials, COVID-19 / BY: David J. Esler, MD, CCFP(EM) April 2020
... had lived through the potato famine, which dispatched some 1 million souls in Ireland; World War I, which claimed 10 ... December 2019, claiming 3300 lives—0.00024% of China’s 1. 4 billion citizens—then quickly died out in the ...