Editorials /
BY: James A. Wilson, MD
September 2003
... we have always been a preferred destination for many of BC’s best medical authors. Over the 20-odd years that I ... on the grounds of content, style, or intelligibility. BC seems to have a large reservoir of skilled, energetic, ... authors will use this time to re-energize their creative centre and get back to the important task of writing for ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: K. Pielak, RN, MSN
June 2003
... Pielak, RN, MSN Nurse Epidemiologist Epidemiology Services BC Centre for Disease Control BC Centre for Disease Control New vaccine programs to improve ...
Letters /
BY: Anthony Taddei, PharmD
March 2003
I am writing regarding the article “BC only province not paying for painkillers,” which ... acid (Aspirin) does. The Arthritis Research Centre of Canada claims the newer coxib drugs could reduce ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Evan Wood, MD, PhD, ABIM, FRCPC
April 2003
... 2002 at the Simon Fraser University Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue. A public health crisis Illicit drug ... it is estimated that 82% of the money spent on controlling BC’s escalating drug problem is spent on law enforcement ... the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the BC Health Research Foundation. Martin Schechter is a Canadian ...
Editorials /
BY: Jack Taunton, MD
December 2003
This is the second issue of the BC Medical Journal with a focus on sport medicine. The ... to be the guest editor for these two editions of the BC Medical Journal. —Jack Taunton, MD Director, Allan McGavin Sports Medicine Centre Editorials Sport medicine, Part 2: Treatment (Guest ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Martin Petric, PhD, FCCM
March 2003
... — A. McNabb, BSc, RT — J. Isaac-Renton, MD, FRCPC BC Centre for Disease Control BC Centre for Disease Control Norovirus (also known as ...
Letters /
BY: James E Parker, MB
March 2003
... particular disease is conspicuous by its absence in the BC Centre for Disease Control item in the December 2002 issue of ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Gillian A. Willis, MPS
October 2003
... a centralized distribution model was implemented by the BC Drug and Poison Information Centre (DPIC). In this model, which is unique in Canada, ... health care treatment facilities. Data on Digibind use in BC and patient outcomes have been collected from 1991 to ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Marlene E. Hunter, MD, FCFPC
January/February 2003
... Lake has the most northern, rural, isolated health care centre in the province, far more isolated than Fort St. John ... The first clinic in Dease Lake, a joint project of the BC government and the BC College of Family Physicians, opened in 1981–82. I ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Judith Isaac-Renton, MD, DPH, FRCPC
November 2003
... agents such as Giardia and Cryptosporidium. [5] BC also has had the highest rate of enteric ... water, particularly for small water systems across BC and Canada. Jurisdictional interactions associated with ... Peck, MB, BCHIR, FRCPC — Perry Kendall, MBBS, FRCPC BC Centre for Disease Control BC Centre for Disease Control ...