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News / BY: James A. Wilson, MD January/February 2006
... Taunton named chief medical officer for 2010 University of BC sports medicine doctor, Dr Jack Taunton has been selected ... and director of the Allan McGavin Sports Medicine Centre at UBC and has served as the chief medical officer for ... cardiopulmonary research. Thommasen book wins BC Book Prize In 2005 Dr Harvey Thommasen and his co-authors ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Philip Hassen, MPH, FCC, HSE, September 2006
... formed within organizations and work is being done by the BC Patient Safety Task Force. Related initiatives include ... and improving the safety of medication practices. In BC and other regions, some key patient safety issues have ... Regional Health Authority, Winnipeg, MB Dr Denis Roy, Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, ...
News / BY: Sarah Gilgoff, BSc, April 2006
... is expected to keep approximately 2400 women annually in BC safer and closer to home. Dr Peter von Dadelszen, Sherry ... designed to influence all women with an HDP admitted to a BC health care facility. It is anticipated that the ... and Gynaecology and broadcasted to every maternity centre in BC in late February 2006. A dialogue was held in ...
News / BY: David R. Richardson, MD November 2006
... the reader in a compelling way. The McCreary Society of BC has been collecting data for over a decade on how BC youth view their own health. It is unique data, acquired ... at UBC, is also the director of the James Hogg iCAPTURE Centre for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research and ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Richard K. Elwood, MB, BCh, MRCP(UK), FRCPC March 2006
... 19% to 45%. Thankfully, MDR-TB still remains unusual in BC, representing less than 2% of our active cases. The most ... A study from 1983–1998 in a tertiary care referral centre reported a mortality of 12% in drug resistant TB. The ... MB, BCh, MRCP(UK), FRCPC —Victoria Cook, MD, FRCPC BC Centre for Disease Control BC Centre for Disease Control ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC July/August 2006
... The National Advisory Committee on Immunization and the BC Perinatal Protocol for HBV emphasize that accountability ... Of about 40 000 pregnant women who deliver annually in BC, approximately 400 (1%) test positive for HBV on prenatal ... vaccine is 1 month (28 days).   Methods In 2005, the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) collaborated with the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Bruce C. Carleton, PharmD, September 2006
... with clinicians at the Children’s and Women’s Health Centre of British Columbia in January 2005 suggest that ADR ... [16]  This estimate of medication use is corroborated by BC PharmaNet data (1998 to 2001), which indicate that, on average, over 530 000 children (approximately 54% of BC children) were dispensed at least one prescription ...
Editorials / BY: Marlene E. Hunter, MD, FCFPC May 2006
... authors working in the northwest, the northeast, and the centre of the province) and culture (from a First Nations ... E. Hunter, MD, FCFPC Director Labyrinth Victoria Centre for Dissociation Editorials Guest editorial--Mental ... health care in northern, rural, and isolated areas of BC ...
Letters / BY: Adam Lund, MD, MEd July/August 2006
... can also bypass a local hospital in favor of a cardiac centre with a cath lab if need be. Additionally, the EMS ... to defend. —Adam Lund, MD Royal Columbian/Eagle Ridge/ BC Children’s Hospitals * ACS = Acute coronary ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Thomas M. Lampinen, PhD January/February 2006
... paid to its health effects on youth and young adults in BC. Use of MA represents a shift from organic stimulants (for ... half the tablets and capsules presently sold in BC as ecstasy contain methamphetamine; and since 1999, ... Pacific AIDS Education and Training Centre Fact sheet for clinicians working with methamphetamine ...