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BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM
January/February 2012
... contribute to breakthrough varicella in immunized people after the first dose. Several US outbreak ... in the past 15 years have affected First Nations people living on reserve.[ 6 , 7 ] The largest of these four ...
Interviews /
BY: Jay Draper
January/February 2012
... the CEO of an organization? That’s a good question. People might also ask, “How did a lawyer end up being the ... senior public servants are more important than sometimes people can appreciate—and are less politically laden than people sometimes imagine. So often, there is no political ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS
March 2012
... future over the next 25 to 30 years as the number of people in this age group is projected to increase to 24% by ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC
April 2012
... lesion, erythema migrans, develops in 60% to 80% of people with LD and may be accompanied by fever, arthralgia, ... symptom (n = 68) and physician-observed sign (n = 58) in people treated for LD. Rash, fever, and arthritis were ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Andrew J. Juren, MD,
May 2012
... also shows improvement with smoking cessation, even in people who have already developed symptoms. The forced ... them toward complete abstinence. Summary Millions of people die prematurely each year as a result of smoking. ... health risks of smoking are well known, yet millions of people die prematurely each year due to the damaging effects ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC
June 2012
... takes many forms including take-home-naloxone programs for people who use illicit drugs in Europe, Australia, and over ... in the US; as part of a pain-management toolkit for people prescribed opioids; and availability for anyone who ... access in order to prevent harms from overdose among people using both prescribed and illegal opioids. Current ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Gibong Lee, BSc(Pharm), MD,
July/August 2012
... is common in North America, with an estimated 2 million people identified as current (past month) users.[ 1 ] ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Philippa Hawley, FRCPC
July/August 2012
... the biggest barrier to good pain management for the many people living and dying with chronic pain. Palliative care ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM
July/August 2012
... it remains a worldwide scourge. Globally, 25 million people are infected, with an estimated annual incidence of 12 ...
Interviews /
BY: Jay Draper
September 2012
... a 3-month probation through the IMG program, and of those people who go through the probation, half of them will be ... I was amazed, when I was closing the practice, how many people had been with me the full 36 years I’d been in ... is tremendous. You make a good living, you can influence people to make good decisions, and you have influence in the ...