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Point Counterpoint /
BY: Will Offley, RN
December 2016
... are not the same thing. There are many ways an individual may be infected with influenza despite having had the annual ... As an example, many infections occurred in the 2014–15 flu season when there was a mismatch between the ... and in the absence of an outbreak.”[ 12 ] Also at issue is the practical matter of wearing masks. It appears ...
Point Counterpoint /
BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC
December 2016
... to those they care for, and they do work while sick and may transmit influenza while asymptomatically shedding ... the arbitrator in Ontario that Mr Offley quotes) is on the issue of whether there is any additional benefit to an ... of protection from year to year (from the low of 13% in 2014–15 to over 80% in 2010–11 in Canada with an accepted ...
News /
BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
March 2015
... project seeking literary works described in the September 2014 issue ( BCMJ 2014;56:349 ) is meant to honor existing ... meantime, an information seeker visiting abcbookworld.com may search for the key words “physician author” to find ...
News&Notes /
BY: Joanne Jablkowski
July/August 2014
Annual Business Meeting and General Assembly Saturday, 31 May 2014 • Pan Pacific Hotel, Vancouver This year’s Annual ... clarified that the increase came largely from a severance issue that occurred, not primarily from hiring new staff. Dr ...
News
October 2014
The quality of health care that people receive may be as important as controlling the risk factors--smoking, ... and High-Income Countries," is published in the 28 August 2014 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine and is ...
News
July/August 2014
... in Antiviral Immunity,” is published in the May 2014 issue of Nature Medicine and is available online ...
News&Notes /
BY: Lila Yewchuk, MD, FRCPC,
March 2014
... with Type 1 Diabetes” was published in the June 2012 issue of the BC Medical Journal ( BCMJ 2012;54:232-237 ... school at last. Changes were planned to start in January 2014, with full implementation scheduled for the start of the ... examples of independent plans and other documents that may be of assistance to parents. Further details regarding ...
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July/August 2014
... levels can dramatically affect learning and memory, and may play a role in the cognitive deficits associated with ... β-catenin Stabilization in Vivo,” is published in June 2014 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of ...
President's Comment /
BY: William Cunningham, MD, CCFP, CCFP (EM)
November 2013
... to 80%, and will likely reach 85% or more by 31 March 2014. With PITO (Physician Information Technology Office) ... physicians set to retire in the next couple of years, it may make sense to forgo the expense and time-consuming ... typed emergency record the very next morning? In this issue of the BCMJ you can read more about this topic and ...