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Clinical Articles / BY: Matthew Mo Kin Kwok, MD, CCFP(EM), FCFP December 2019
... to the Canada Vigilance Program. We also contacted the BC Drug and Poison Information Centre (DPIC) and learned that ... N 2 O cases described in the literature, the calls made to BC DPIC, and news stories of misuse[ 9 ] all suggest that ...
News March 2019
... to a death review panel report[ 1 ] released by the BC Coroners Service in 2018. Of those, 10% (333 people) died ... Five new community transition teams stationed throughout BC aim to address this problem by helping people with ... for Correctional Health Services and addictions lead for BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services, reports that ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Tanya Fairweather, MD, CCFP, FCFP July/August 2019
... Health care assistants (care aides) registered with the BC Care Aide and Community Health Worker Registry. If anyone ...
President's Comment / BY: Kathleen Ross, MD November 2019
... Home-based self-monitoring programs under development in BC, such as TEC4home, should help reduce the number of times ... down, we are still Oz. —Kathleen Ross, MD Doctors of BC President President's Comment Has democratization and ...
Letters / BY: John Sehmer, MD January/February 2019
... ], suggests we are grossly undertreating diabetes in BC, and that British Columbians deserve better. ... of Health Information[ 1 ] found that Alberta and BC have the lowest rates of diabetes in Canada. Diabetes ... this incidence rate[ 2 ] and even proposed that by 2020, BC, at 25.4%, will have the second lowest prevalence of ...
President's Comment / BY: Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP April 2019
... in the sand. —Eric Cadesky, MDCM, CCFP, FCFP Doctors of BC President President's Comment Are doctors territorial? ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM June 2019
... otherwise promote measles vaccination for this age group. BC measles sero-immunity studies using prenatal blood ... Communicable Diseases and Immunization Service, BCCDC BC Centre for Disease Control Measles: Laboratory diagnostics ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD September 2019
... consider population differences. Certain health regions in BC have well-organized MAID programs, which are reflected in ...
News December 2019
... problems in children. The study was led by researchers at BC Children’s Hospital, the University of British Columbia, ...
Obituaries / BY: John O’Brien-Bell, MB March 2019
... at affiliated hospitals. Mid-career he moved to Surrey, BC, where he was quickly recognized as an outstanding ... system at the 2016 College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC annual general meeting, and his presentation was so ...