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Premise / BY: Ali Zentner, MD, FRCPC, Diplomate ABOM June 2024
... The weight of the matter Worldwide, more than 240 million people have symptomatic and activity-limiting osteoarthritis ... 1 ] In Canada, arthritis affects more than 6 million people. More than 23% of women and 17% of men in Canada live ... to 56% of patients were women.[ 3 ] More than 650 million people worldwide have obesity,[ 1 ] currently defined as a ...
President's Comment / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC March 2024
... it simply makes us more alone. Yet, in the real world, people cheer when they hear someone has gotten into medical ... his sociology professor, Morrie Schwartz, who had ALS. People would come to commiserate with Schwartz yet would ... Yet I find inspiration at work daily. I find it in the people who come together to look after a patient with ...
President's Comment / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC May 2024
... resources. Canada has 2.6 hospital beds for every 1000 people, which is behind almost every Organisation for ... BC has even less—a mere 1.95 hospital beds per 1000 people. Canada also has significantly fewer physicians ... to reaching the OECD average of 4.3 hospital beds per 1000 people by 2035, doubling our current operating room capacity, ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Sarah B. Henderson, PhD April 2024
... whenever wildfire smoke is affecting air quality. Most people spend the majority of their time indoors, so cleaner ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC January/February 2024
... and education about Canada’s treatment of Indigenous people. It has been humbling to discover the multitude of ... deficit-based language in articles that discuss Indigenous people is one thing the Editorial Board has been working on. ... may be well intentioned; however, historically, Indigenous people have been made into research subjects and described in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Tracy Barber, RPT, Grad Dip Phys June 2024
... it is increasingly recognized as also impacting younger people. International data from the Global Burden of Disease ... osteoarthritis can be particularly problematic for younger people who may need to manage their osteoarthritis alongside ... where to find additional information if needed. How people receive this information may also be important, ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Sofia R. Bartlett, PhD March 2024
... with direct acting antivirals cures more than 95% of people with chronic HCV infection and is associated with ... Agency of Canada set targets[ 7 ] for the proportion of people living with chronic HBV or HCV infection in Canada to ... of 2023, five working groups were formed, each including people with lived experience of HBV or HCV infection, along ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Kate Smolina, DPhil, CHE June 2024
... costs to the health care system.[ 1 ] In BC, the number of people living with chronic disease is increasing. Among ... incidence (new cases) and prevalence (the total number of people living with a condition) are sourced from the BC ... and Métis Peoples in BC, see other reports.[ 4,5 ] People living with chronic conditions were disproportionately ...
Letters / BY: Derryck H. Smith, MD, FRCPC March 2024
... that we are setting a very poor example for young people by normalizing drug use. Contrary to the editorial, I ...
Premise / BY: Clara MacDonald, MSc, MD April 2024
... that second victim syndrome often goes unrecognized.[ 15 ] People may also be unwilling to discuss their experiences ...