President's Comment /
BY: Nasir Jetha, MD,
September 2011
... that in the United States, which is 29.7%. More good news: British Columbia has the lowest combined overweight and ... I find startling and am very concerned about is that in British Columbia 51 000 children (7%) aged 2 to 17 years were ...
Physician Information Technology Office /
BY: Jeremy Smith,
December 2011
... physicians having adopted an EMR in their practice in British Columbia, several trends are becoming clear. As ...
News
January/February 2011
University of British Columbia student Aneil Jaswal is this year’s recipient of the Rhodes Scholarship for British Columbia. The scholarship of nearly $150000 will ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Aspasia Michoulas, BSc Pharm, MD,
July/August 2011
... and issues regarding water safety and driving. The British Columbia Epilepsy Society website has detailed ...
Premise /
BY: Stuart Kreisman, MD
October 2011
In British Columbia, as elsewhere in the world, we have become ... longer permitted in much of the world, including here in British Columbia. Visitors to our cities are better protected ...
Letters /
BY: R.M. Preshaw, MD
March 2011
... Northwest Territories, or the Yukon. On 4 October 2010, British prime minister David Cameron announced an extra $100 ...
Family Practice Services Committee /
BY: Greg Dines,
September 2011
... of family practice to reach the goal of providing every British Columbian who wants a doctor with a doctor by 2015. ... Dr Frank Egan. Attachment Recent research shows that British Columbians who are “attached” to a family ... the GPSC’s Attachment initiative aims to provide every British Columbian who wants a family practitioner with a ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Dan Bilsker, PhD,
December 2011
... and is a major contributor to men’s mortality. In British Columbia, suicide is one of the top three causes of ... of suicide almost as frequently as men.[ 6 ] Here in British Columbia for example, hanging was the most common ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC
May 2011
... use of cocaine containing levamisole were identified in British Columbia in 2008 following an alert from Alberta.[ 1 ... (neutropenia) associated with levamisole in cocaine in British Columbia ...
Letters /
BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC
October 2011
... the BC Centre for Disease Control about Lyme disease in British Columbia. Our article published in the June 2011 ...