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Clinical Articles / BY: Leila Srour, MD January/February 2000
... vaccine and only 1% with pneumococcal vaccine.[ 4 ] In BC, influenza vaccine is provided free of charge to people ... activity in health-care facilities and schools across BC.[ 5 ] All parties report to the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC). In BC, health-care ...
Editorials / BY: G.I. McGregor, MD, FRCSC, FACS May 2000
... Systemic Therapy Subcommittee of the GI Tumor Group at the BC Cancer Agency, which meets to review policy on a regular ... care. This is an expensive, time-consuming process; the BC Cancer Agency has an obligation to assist physicians and ... FACS Chair, GI Tumor Group BC Cancer Agency Vancouver Centre Editorials Part 2—Colorectal cancer: Current ...
Editorials / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC January/February 2000
... lost and 50,000 hospitalizations. More than 1200 people in BC die each year from pneumonia and influenza--a marker for ... this recommendation was inconsistently applied in BC.   Influenza demonstrates a remarkable ability to adapt ... Family Physicians, the BC Medical Association, and the BC Centre for Disease Control.   Its success is due to the ...
Blog / BY: Liam Brunham, MD, PhD, FRCPC
... a survey on this topic. I encourage all physicians in BC to complete this short survey to ensure that BC physicians’ voices are represented in this important ... .  —Liam R. Brunham, MD, PhD, FRCPC Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, Department of Medicine, UBC ...
Blog, COVID-19 / BY: Robert Anthony, MD
... close to 150 000 vaccine doses have been administered in BC.[ 1 ] Although the two available vaccines at the time of ... had sides effects from COVID-19 vaccinations. To alert BC practitioners, here we report three incidences of atypical ... dose.  These cases do not need to be reported to the BC Centre for Disease Control or health authority public health ...
Blog / BY: Craig Stevenson
... and reduced financial security. Up to 65% of adults in BC age 60+ will develop hearing loss. Fewer than 1/4 of these ... and Speech Sciences  in partnership with the Wavefront Centre for Communication Accessibility .  For more ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
A hospital, a school, a community centre, a park, a museum, a research institution, or any other public facility in BC that bears the name of a physician reveals the impact that ... the BCMJ . Dr Wrinch’s story motivated me to search for BC communities in which a hospital was named/renamed to honor ...
Blog / BY: Richard Klasa, MDCM
... (CDM), which has intervenor status in the Supreme Court of BC case involving Cambie Surgeries Corporation. However, ... the case rests solely on ensuring that a core tenet of the BC Medicare Protection Act and the Canada Health Act is ... out services to private clinics, including Cambie Surgery Centre. All of that care was publicly funded. That is not ...
Blog / BY: Melissa Nelson
... —Melissa Nelson Communications Coordinator, BC Women’s Hospital + Health Centre   Blog Pelvic health resources for patients: ...
Blog / BY: Tianna Magel, MSc
... a toxic street drug supply. Of the overdose fatalities in BC, approximately 15% to 20% are youth under 30 years of ... youth be mitigated in the context of the opioid crisis?  BC has seen acute care diagnoses of opioid use disorder among ... and Public Health, University of British Columbia Centre for Health Evaluation & Outcome Sciences, Providence ...