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News May 2010
... syphilis. According to the CDC, MSM comprised 57% of people newly infected with HIV in the US in 2006, even though ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Robert Young, MD, June 2010
... for seniors, women through pregnancy and childbirth, and people with mental illness and substance abuse issues. ...
News June 2010
... But the disease has come back with a vengeance: 2 million people die of TB each year.  Doctors Without ... by an even more worrisome phenomenon: one in four people who have tuberculosis become ill with a form of the ... treated with standard drug regimens.  Every year 120000 people around the world die from this so-called MDR-TB, while ...
News June 2010
... eyebrow. The side and chin straps should be snug.  4.  People of all ages should wear a helmet when they ride. ...
News June 2010
... to learn more and register. In BC there are currently 333 people waiting for a solid organ transplant, and there is a ... available. One person could save the lives of up to seven people.  BC’s Organ Donor Registry was introduced in 1997 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Megan Isaac-Renton, BSc, July/August 2010
... hunters, trappers, and those who handle ill wild animals. People working with sheep have been reported to be at high ... infected animal.  Infection can be prevented by educating people at high risk (animal handlers, trappers, and farmers ... and to insect vectors that harbor disease) and encouraging people to avoid exposure to insects in endemic areas. Because ...
News / BY: Martin De Smet, MD, July/August 2010
... diagnostics, malaria continues to kill almost 1 million people every year. In sub-Saharan Africa, malaria is the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Margot Davis, MD, September 2010
... group.  It provides a risk assessment model for British people of In­dian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, black Caribbean, ... A study by the Framingham group demonstrated that among people free of cardiovascular disease at age 50, the lifetime ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Erica Frank, MD, September 2010
... environment, the provincial culture, and the types of people who choose to live in BC.  If such factors were ...
News September 2010
... by a layperson to medicine and/or to the welfare of the people of British Columbia or Canada. Nominations for the ... or health education of the public; service to the people of Canada in raising the standards of health care ... in the field of medical organization, service to the people of Canada in raising the standards of medical practice ...