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News, COVID-19 June 2020
... Vancouver: 604 456-6950, other areas of BC: (toll-free): 1 866 456-6950. News COVID-19 MSP coverage relating to ...
Editorials, COVID-19 / BY: Jeevyn K. Chahal, MD November 2020
... of virtual care seems similar to in-person visits.”[ 1 ] They defined virtual care as videoconferencing and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Matthew D. Burkey, MD, PhD, MPH January/February 2020
... (e.g., divorce, parental conflict, substance abuse).[ 1 ] Exposure to ACEs without adequate support leads to ... nearly 20 years earlier than those with no reported ACEs.[ 1 ] In addition to individual health and emotional impacts, ... statement[ 7 ] developed after the ACEs Summit 2017: (1) promote cross-sectoral leadership, (2) implement proven ...
News / BY: Shawna Mann, MD, FRCPC May 2020
Kidney donation in British Columbia is on the rise,[ 1 ] and that means the number of kidney donors in the ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC September 2020
... suicide are just a few of the most striking disparities.[ 1 , 2 ] The United Nations Human Development Index includes ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sympascho Young, MD December 2020
... spp., which are transmitted by the Ixodes spp. tick.[ 1 ] In Canada, the number of reported cases of Lyme disease ... progression of Lyme disease occurs in three stages: Stage 1: Following the tick bite, there is a 3- to 32-day ... erythema migrans (EM), manifests at the site of the bite.[ 1 ] EM typically appears as a red annular skin lesion with a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Matthew Boroditsky, BHSc March 2020
... hypoparathyroidism, and cardiac outflow tract anomalies.[ 1 , 2 ] DiGeorge syndrome was later grouped with other ... Opitz G/BBB syndrome, and Cayler cardiofacial syndrome).[ 1 , 2 ] With the advent of cytogenetic testing in the 1980s ... common microdeletion syndrome with a prevalence of roughly 1 in 3000 to 1 in 6000 live births.[ 3 ] Affected individuals ...
Letters, COVID-19 / BY: British Columbia COVID-19 Therapeutics Committee June 2020
... and media coverage of potential pharmacological agents.[ 1 , 2 ] In BC, we have had the benefit of a diverse group of ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Sonny Thiara, MD October 2020
... 2019 and resulted in cases of pneumonia in Wuhan, China.[ 1 ] Since then, SARS-CoV-2 has spread rapidly around the ... rate for patients who were admitted to the ICU and an 88.1% mortality rate for patients who required mechanical ... 2.8% (n = 3053) of Canada’s COVID-19 cases and 2.1% (n = 187) of the country’s COVID-19 deaths.[ 9 ] As of 8 ...
News January/February 2020
... real-time engagement. Webinars are not recorded. Session 1: MSP Basics—Introduction to Billing for Family Practice. ... 27 January 2020, 6 p.m. Session 2: GPSC Billing Part 1. Tuesday, 28 January 2020, 6 p.m. Session 3: GPSC Billing ...