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Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Afsaneh Moradi May 2019
... one in two will experience a mental illness by age 40.[ 1 ] Mild to moderate depression and anxiety comprise a number ...
News September 2019
... House calls WorkSafe BC and ICBC visits GPSC Billing Part 1: 1 October at 6 p.m.  GPSC Portal (G14070, G14071) Mental ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Geetha Raghukumar, MBBS, DLSHTM, MSc, CIC, CCFP, FRCPC December 2019
... Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) Health of Animals Act.[ 1 ] Causes Rabies is a rare zoonotic disease caused by a ... WorkSafeBC office, or call the Medical Advisor Hotline at 1 855 476-3049. —Geetha Raghukumar, MBBS, DLSHTM, MSc, CIC, ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Brian E. Ng, MD, MPH, CCFP January/February 2019
Asthma affects about 7.5% of the adult population.[ 1 , 2 ] Work-related asthma, one of the most common ... and accounts for 5% to 20% of new adult-onset asthma.[ 1 , 3-5 ] Occupational asthma can be due to sensitization to ... associated with asthma, the majority being sensitizers.[ 1 , 2 , 4 ] Common sensitizers seen in BC include plicatic ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Shaila Jiwa, RN, BScN, MScPPH April 2019
... leading cause of death from a single infectious agent.[ 1 ] In 2017, an estimated 10 million people developed TB disease globally, resulting in an estimated 1.6 million deaths, with 300 000 of those deaths occurring in people living with HIV.[ 1 ] TB is not just an international public health issue. ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ilona Hale, MD, FCFPC June 2019
... exercise rarely results in sustainable weight reduction.[ 1 ] As physicians, our biases can negatively influence the ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Troy Grennan, MD, DTM&H, MSc, FRCPC October 2019
... high rates of syphilis-associated spontaneous abortion,[ 1 ] the elevated transplacental transmission rate, ...
President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP March 2019
... that is still used more than 65 years later in WD-40.[ 1 ] And while you may not remember Apple’s desktop ...
President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP May 2019
... of nutrition by a supplement industry worth billions,[ 1 ] and mistrust in medication due to Big Pharma scandals.[ 2 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Farshad Hosseini, BSc July/August 2019
... developing arthropathy related to recurrent hemarthrosis.[ 1 , 2 ] The most commonly affected joints are the knees, ankles, and elbows.[ 1 ] Arthropathy can result in major morbidity, including ... without hemophilia undergoing similar procedures.[ 1 , 3 ] As well, hemophilia patients can be at high risk for ...