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Clinical Articles / BY: Jan Klimas, MSc, PhD September 2020
... of opioid or other substance use disorders, certain mental health disorders (e.g., personality disorder, somatoform ... increases the risk of adverse opioid-related health care events among those who already receive opioid ... systematic review sponsored by the National Institutes of Health reported a dose-dependent risk of serious harm from ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Sonny Thiara, MD October 2020
... rapidly around the globe. On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic.[ 2 ] As of ... while mechanically ventilated, according to Provincial Health Services Authority data. Initially in March 2020, BC testing focused on sicker patients and health care workers. This led to concern that subsequent case ...
News, COVID-19 November 2020
... of intimate partner violence. According to the World Health Organization, one in three women will experience ... partner violence, Paul van Donkelaar, professor of health and exercise sciences at UBC Okanagan and the ...
News January/February 2020
... is lead researcher and a professor with the School of Health and Exercise Sciences. He reports that there is ...
Premise / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD May 2020
... crucial to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Public health officials have instructed us to practise social ... the amygdala and proxemics. We are ordered by public health authorities to create distances between households, ... loneliness, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, or other health issues are likely to be vulnerable to even more ...
News September 2020
... provides telephone consultation to physicians and other health care providers involved in addiction and substance use ...
MDs To Be / BY: Rochelle Tonkin, MD October 2020
... medical charts were reviewed with assistance from Northern Health’s Health Information Management Services (HIMS) department, and ... the University of Northern British Columbia, and Northern Health H19-01950. Results Between 1 January 2016 and 31 ...
President's Comment, COVID-19 / BY: Matthew C. Chow, MD December 2020
... the results. I am grateful for our colleagues in public health, especially Dr Bonnie Henry, her deputies and advisors, public servants, medical health officers, deputy medical health officers, and all others involved in making crucial ...
News April 2020
... fees directly from MSP (that is, payments assigned to health authorities are not eligible for the premium). The BCP ... forms Apply for facility number: www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/health/forms/2948fil.pdf Attach practitioner to MSP facility number: www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/health/forms/2950fil.pdf For more information ...
President's Comment, COVID-19 / BY: Kathleen Ross, MD June 2020
... Now we wait. Physical distancing and the provincial health officer’s plea to “just stay home” have ... is flattening. Added to this, we have patients who need health care outside of COVID-19, and we are successfully ... such a rapid and violent shake-up in the way we deliver health care in Canada. Admittedly, the advent of electronic ...