News
December 2019
... care medical unit at UHNBC in partnership with Northern Health. The second is developing a model for the delivery of mental health and substance use services in Northern British ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: John Fan
March 2019
... Locally, a survey of 660 patients visiting the Diamond Health Care Centre Outpatient Laboratory at Vancouver General ... use to physicians unless specifically asked. Further, health care providers may also view biotin supplementation as ... US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to warn the public, health care providers, and laboratory personnel that biotin ...
WorkSafeBC /
BY: Peter Rothfels, MD
May 2019
... 2 , 3 ] The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) recently launched a framework addressing ... experts have been delivering an outreach program to health care providers. The sessions, “Not just a ... ). The intent is to bring together community health care providers such as physicians, nurse ...
News
July/August 2019
... drug. The BC Pharmacare announcement is consistent with Health Canada’s recommendation that such a decision should ...
MDs To Be /
BY: Azzra Mangalji, MD
October 2019
In 2014 the BC Ministry of Health’s report, “Setting Priorities for the BC Health System,” outlined information management and ... one of seven strategies to enable efforts toward creating health system change. One subcomponent of this strategy is to ...
MDs To Be /
BY: Yue Bo Yang, BSc
December 2019
... President Barack Obama launched the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us campaign in 2015, mandating the ... similar initiatives. The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) predicts 60 million genomes will be sequenced ... world’s population still deplete of basic resources and health care, genomics and precision medicine would primarily ...
News
January/February 2019
A 10-year undertaking to track Indigenous health in BC has found improvements in five key areas; however, the gap between the health status of Indigenous and non-Indigenous residents ... of those areas. A report released by the First Nations Health Authority and the Office of the Provincial Health ...
News
April 2019
... with the Vancouver Prostate Centre, a Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute research centre, and was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. The article is available online at ...
News
June 2019
... of Medicine and researcher with the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, embarked on a research study to ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Farshad Hosseini, BSc
July/August 2019
... from the University of British Columbia and the Providence Health Care Research Institute. Results The chart and record ...