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News May 2016
... the study strongly support routine HCV screening for all people born between 1945 and 1964, in line with recent US CDC ...
News May 2016
... 5-year, $59 million initiative to reduce the number of people who need dialysis or organ transplants, or who develop ... •    Broader screening, especially among indigenous people, who are more at risk of developing chronic kidney ... •    New ways of providing care, especially for people who live far from kidney specialists. One clinical ...
News May 2016
... issue [ BCMJ  2016;58:42 ], we included a photo of five people signing the purchase agreement for the Doctors of BC ... in November 1985. We were unable to identify three people in the photo and asked you to e-mail us if you could ... flips through her husband Dr Rick Helmer’s journal, the people in the photograph have been identified. They are, ...
News November 2016
... in part that the modules improved their care for people with mental health issues and allowed them to provide ...
News November 2016
... of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Medicine, identified that people think COPD will soon be a problem of the past because ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ivana Jakovljevic, MD October 2016
... by 25% in British Columbia since 2008. Over 97 000 people used the food bank last year in BC, with 31% of users ... specific questions for families with children, seniors, people with disabilities, and First Nations patients living ...
News / BY: Dirk van Niekerk, MD, FRCPC October 2016
... of symptoms, pregnancy history, and substance use. Young people, particularly women under the age of 25, experience ... screening. Opportunities for STI screening among young people Primary care providers should offer STI risk ... screening: Need for continued STI screening among young people in the era of new cervical cancer screening guidelines ...
News October 2016
... by a layperson to medicine or to the welfare of the people of British Columbia or Canada. The closing date for ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Bakul Dalal, MD, July/August 2016
... and at a rate of approximately 5 to 10 cases per million people.[ 1 ] Patients with PNH lack a protein called ... and at a rate of approximately 5 to 10 cases per million people. Now that a highly effective treatment is available ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jaclyn R. Farquhar, MD July/August 2016
... one in four adult Canadians, or about 6.3 million people, were obese. Since 2003, the proportion of obese ... been well quantified is the care gap that can occur when people with an illness need but do not receive treatment.[ 33 ...