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Letters / BY: Mark Elliott, MD, FRCPC June 2019
... translucent red. Your body is 3% blood but a cancer over 1 millimetre or so develops a strange leaky vasculature that ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Siu-Kae Yeong, MD September 2019
... exposure, or residence in or travel to a TB-endemic area.[ 1 ] Microbiological confirmation of TB can be by culture of ... detection of M. tuberculosis DNA in patient samples.[ 1 ] Histopathological findings associated with TB are ... and limits options for drug susceptibility testing.[ 1 ] To estimate how frequently TB diagnosis may be missed, we ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Judy Dercksen, MD January/February 2019
... pain can enhance chronic pain management for many people.[ 1 ] Past president of the American Academy of Pain Medicine, ... to 90% of patients have some form of digital access,[ 1 ] they can access free pain websites such as those from ...
Letters / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC May 2019
... has been well documented to contain toxic lead levels.[ 1 , 2 ] The BCCDC article serves as a reminder of the ...
News July/August 2019
... information team at MR-MedicalInformation@Allergan.com or 1 800 668-6424, and visit Allergan’s website at ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brenda Hefford, MD November 2019
... indicator in the overall functioning of health systems[ 1 ]—in effect, positioning physician health as an ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Steven Larigakis, MD March 2019
... ability to withstand and recover from minor challenges.[ 1 ] Frailty is multidimensional and consists of ...
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, ...