News
October 2007
... consultation service at the Drug and Poison Information Centre (DPIC). DPIC also has available an excellent Poison ... by Dr Susan O’Reilly, director of clinical services, BC Cancer Agency, and Dr Teresa Clarke, director of clinical ... —Penny Nightingale InspireHealth SMP gets new look BC family physicians are consistently named as the first ...
MDs To Be /
BY: Maia Love, BSc, BGS,
January/February 2007
... with Dr Chris Fraser of the Cool Aid Community Health Centre to identify key services. By consulting various ... substance use and child protection http://www.mcf.gov.bc.ca/publications/privacy_charter/pfwg_body.htm Canadian ... Resources for addictions care in BC BC Ministry of Health—Health and addictions ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Mark Gilbert, MD, MHSc, FRCPC
May 2007
... laboratory testing for HIV as described above. Under the BC Health Act, HIV is a reportable infection and all ... be in place for all types of POC HIV test kits in use in BC (i.e., quality control conducted by an organization ... quality control measures. —M. Gilbert, MD, FRCP BC Centre for Disease Control —E. Wong, BSN, MBA Public Health ...
Back Page /
BY: Jay Draper
April 2007
The BC Medical Journal hosted its first CME cruise conference in ... We would also like to thank sponsors Cambie Surgery Centre, Canada Diagnostics, Specialist Referral Clinic, and ...
News
July/August 2007
... medicine, palliative care, and now as the director of the Centre for Practitioner Renewal. The latter is jointly funded ... Dept. of Psychiatry 7000 Westminster Highway Richmond BC, V6X 1A2 Phone 604 278-9711, ext. 4055 ... just started. Called the FPs4BC (Family Physicians for BC) Program, it provides eligible physicians with access to ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Janet Webb, BSc(Pharm), MSc,
January/February 2007
... to be 4.4 (95% CI 1.4–13.8). [10] The Poison Control Centre at BC’s Drug and Poison Information Centre (DPIC) has had over ... DPIC continues to gather data on venlafaxine overdose in BC, to advise on case management, and to follow up for ...
Index
December 2007
... (*) indicates a clinical review article. Back Page (bp), BC Centre for Disease Control (cdc), Editorials (ed), ... M: Protecting the blood supply from West Nile Virus—BC update, 2007 (pu) 7:370 Blank M: Posttraumatic stress ...
MDs To Be /
BY: Lee MacKay, BSc,
April 2007
... Columbia’s health care landscape with the Cambie Surgery Centre and False Creek Surgical Centre promoting themselves ... the answer to the woes of the public health care system in BC, the issue of how best to fix the problems being faced by BC’s health care system has again come to the fore. The ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Russell Callaghan, PhD,
September 2007
... comes from school-based surveys. For example, the McCreary Centre’s 1998 and 2003 British Columbia adolescent health ... one time. Adolescents can gain admission to the treatment centre through self-referral, or with a referral from their ... Articles Trends in methamphetamine use in northern BC, 2001–2005 ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Myles Blank, MD, FRCPC,
April 2007
... and preschoolers. The Infant Psychiatry Clinic at BC Children’s Hospital routinely uses criteria from DC: ... specialist, or to the Infant Psychiatry Department at BC Children’s and Women’s Hospital and specialized programs, such as the Alan Cashmore Centre in Vancouver. Outside major urban areas, where ...