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Back Page, COVID-19 / BY: Kristina Jenei, BSN September 2020
... 1994 best seller The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story .[ 1 ] The book is a nonfiction account of how researchers, ... to human spillover has happened before. In 2003, SARS-CoV-1 emerged from a market in Foshan, China. There is ...
MDs To Be / BY: Sofía Zhang-Jiang, BHSc December 2020
... are beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, and justice.[ 1 ] Current medical ethics borrows strongly from these ... view features four components of the patient’s good: (1) the ultimate good, which represents the ultimate standard ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Derek C. Chang, MD April 2020
... such as Nurses and Nurse Practitioners of BC,[ 1 ] Moms Stop the Harm,[ 2 ] the Canadian Association of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Lisa J. Zhang November 2020
Infertility is defined as the inability to conceive after 1 year of unprotected intercourse, and it affects approximately 12% to 15% of couples.[ 1 ] Given that most couples achieve pregnancy within the ... encounter unanticipated difficulties with the process.[ 1 ] Many couples will go online to find information on how to ...
News, COVID-19 / BY: Roxanne Joyce May 2020
... and referral services. Our intake line is open 24/7 (1 800 663-6729). Our general office line is 604 398-4300 ...
MDs To Be, COVID-19 / BY: Leilynaz Malekafzali, BSc September 2020
... started in the city of Wuhan, China, in December 2019.[ 1 ] The virus spread quickly and resulted in 5 404 512 ... experience with the SARS 2003 epidemic caused by SARS-CoV-1, the primary mode of human-to-human transmission of COVID-19 is known to be through droplets and fomites.[ 1 ] According to the Centers for Disease Control and ...
BC Centre for Disease Control, COVID-19 / BY: Caren Rose, PhD, MSc June 2020
... in British Columbia were reported to public health.[ 1 ] The epidemic in BC began with the first lab-confirmed ... in the 4th week of March at close to 100 new cases.[ 1 ] Thereafter, there was a slow decline and leveling in the ... authorities, Fraser Health and Vancouver Coastal Health.[ 1 ] Lab-confirmed cases were evenly distributed by sex. ...
News, COVID-19 October 2020
... researchers identified six molecules of importance (CLM-1, IL12RB1, CD83, FAM3B, IGFR1R, and OPTC). They found that ... levels of three molecules (hyaluronic acid, syndecan-1, and P-selectin.) The first two molecules are products ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB January/February 2020
... or about 18 patients a day. In 2007, I wrote an editorial[ 1 ] in which I stated, “Injured or sick people who languish ...
Back Page, COVID-19 / BY: Abe Zacharias, MD, FRCPC July/August 2020
... behind a wife and five children, ranging in age from 1 to 12. I was the oldest. During those 6 years in hospital, ...