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Beyond Medicine / BY: Tara Lyon March 2023
... choosing in the past, it’s so important. Indigenous people wouldn’t necessarily see themselves in this research ... is traumatizing (and retraumatizing) for many Indigenous people, she found medical school had the same lasting impact, ... forgiveness, and part of the reason I’m here is to help people, to give back, and to provide the care that Indigenous ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: David A. McVea, MD, PhD March 2023
Poisonings have a significant impact on the health of people in BC. In 2022, there were more than 2000 poisoning ... cannabis legalization, more cases of self-harm among young people, and the growing and aging population. The DPIC is ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Kali Sedgemore April 2023
... connect with a youth outreach team or other supportive people identified by the youth. Youth accessing prescribed ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Jason Wong, MD, MPH, CCFP, FRCPC December 2022
... screened for syphilis at 28–32 weeks of pregnancy.[ 5 ] People delivering a stillborn infant after 20 weeks’ ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: David R. Richardson, MD January/February 2022
... grew up with. There was a great sense of community, great people. We have always had lovely neighbors. Where’s your ... Ladner Pioneer Library; I used to take out more books than people would think I could read, but medicine was my biggest ... life into the world, delivering babies, and then have people take their last breath with you in a palliative ...
Specialist Services Committee / BY: Tiffany Wong, MD, FRCPC January/February 2022
... which, in addition to children, particularly affect people with sexually transmitted diseases and women who’ve ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: BCCDC Overdose Drivers Knowledge Translation Group June 2022
... halt the devastating loss of life. Laws that criminalize people for simple possession of drugs and drug use create ... addressing the unequal impacts of overdose on Indigenous people in BC and Canada. Addressing comorbidities and ... preventing overdose deaths. We have to do better. Engaging people with lived and living experience is necessary to ...
Beyond Medicine, COVID-19 / BY: Jocelyn Y. Wong October 2022
... generating feelings of hesitancy among pregnant people and people who plan to conceive. Recently, vaccine clinical ... A Canada-wide study, CANCOVID-Preg, reported that pregnant people with COVID-19 infection have a stillbirth rate of ...
BC Centre for Disease Control, COVID-19 / BY: Hasina Samji, PhD, MSc June 2021
... remote, and northern communities; and gender-diverse people). Engaging youth to speak to their needs and ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Stephanie Gin, RN, MPH July/August 2021
... that BC is on track to achieve elimination by 2030, 28 607 people living with HCV in BC remain untreated.[ 1 ] Many have ... of social and economic marginalization. Around 17% of people testing antibody positive in BC between 1990 and 2018 ... in Canada to recommend one-time birth cohort screening for people born between 1945 and 1965. As this birth cohort ...