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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Lorraine McIntyre, MSc July/August 2013
... commercially sold shellfish in Canada for over 30 years.[ 4 ] Canada has an extensive, well-managed shellfish control ... poisoning have only been found on the east coast.[ 4 , 6 ] Monitoring for amnesic shellfish poisoning has been ...
Clinical Articles / BY: D. Sandberg, RRT, April 2013
... with chronic obstruc­tive pulmonary disease (COPD),[ 1-4 ] and more trials are currently underway.[ 5 ] There is ...
President's Comment / BY: William Cunningham, MD, CCFP, CCFP (EM) October 2013
... city. I had the pleasure of attending this year’s 4-day meeting held in Calgary, Alberta, as the BCMA ...
MDs To Be / BY: Laura Budd, BMSc, January/February 2013
... searches are being performed by 80% of Internet users.[ 4 ] These searches for medical information are the third most popular Internet activity.[ 4 ] Patients are engaging in social media using the tools of ... that 37% of respondents reported using Facebook and 6.4% of respondents reported contributing to an online blog.[ 6 ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Michael A Benusic, UBC Medical Class of 2014, June 2013
... in BC, especially given the vast amount of waste fluid (4.2 billion litres in 2009)[ 4 ]  that is transported and dispos­ed of mainly in ...
News March 2013
... were the lowest paid in the country. Of the $20.4 billion paid to physicians in 2010–11 in Canada, about ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2013
... is Elizabeth, who is 8 years old and going into grade 4 at St. Michaels University School. She is very musical; she ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Bruce Fleming, MD May 2013
... experience in nontraditional community settings.[ 4-7 ] One of these opportunities is the integrated community ... or better than their traditionally trained counterparts.[ 4,5 ] The longitudinal model has permitted development of ... skills. More recently, the re­sults of the UBC 2012 Year 4 In-House Exit OSCE completed by both ICC graduates and ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM December 2013
... UBT usage making up the remainder ( Figure ). After only 4 years’ post-introduction, physicians clearly valued UBT ... failure rates previously reported in other regions.[ 4 ] An understanding of drug susceptibility patterns is ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Gary Mazowita, MD, March 2013
... low-income Canadians and those with multiple morbidities.[ 4 , 5 ] In response to this burden of disease, clinical ...