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Clinical Articles / BY: Benjamin Matthew, MHSc, MD, July/August 2015
... are overweight[ 2 ] and 25% of these adults are obese. In British Columbia, 59% of adults are overweight and 20% of ... Ethics approval was obtained from the University of British Columbia Clinical Research Ethics Board and the ...
News December 2015
... has been named the 2015 Family Physician of the Year for British Columbia by the College of Family Physicians of ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM March 2015
British Columbia is expanding use of pneumococcal conjugate ... cases of invasive pneumococcal disease among adults in British Columbia are due to serotypes covered only by PPV23; ...
News September 2015
... ingenuity to improve and protect the health and safety of British Columbians, and results that have brought about ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ryan R. Woods, PhD June 2015
Background   The population of British Columbia is growing and is forecast to reach more ... having the lowest overall cancer rates in Canada,[ 7 ] British Columbians can be expected to experience ... in new cancer cases ( Table 3 ). We expect that 11 195 British Columbians will die of cancer in 2030; this ...
News November 2015
... (CFRI) BC Children’s Hospital and the University of British Columbia found a genetic variation that brings a ...
News January/February 2015
... Primary Care guideline is available to physicians across British Columbia at  ...
Obituaries / BY: Aron M. Tischler, MD, July/August 2015
... award in its 102-year history. In 1978 the government of British Columbia recognized Dr Tischler’s achievements when ...
News April 2015
... the BC Patient Safety and Quality Council is encouraging British Columbians to pledge to make one small change to ... something new or do one small thing to improve care for British Columbians, and record your pledge at  ...
Letters / BY: Evert Tuyp, MD, FRCPC October 2015
... statistics in the  BCMJ  article "Cancer Incidence in British Columbia Expected to Grow by 57% from 2012 to 2030" [ ...