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Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Tonia Tauh, MD, FRCPC March 2021
... A rapid vaccine rollout has many roadblocks, from some people’s initial hesitancy to receive a novel vaccine to ... supply, our society must balance vaccinating as many people as possible in short order with the strict timing ... there was no difference in vaccine efficacy between the people who got their second dose at day 19 and the people who ...
Letters / BY: Anthony Walter, MD January/February 2021
... ] notes the steady decline in the proportion of people over 65 being started on opioids and the harm that ...
Letters / BY: Susan M. Lee, MD, FRCPC, MAS January/February 2021
... 3 ] with depression and anxiety rates similar to those in people with cancer; and feelings of regret, sadness, and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Samantha Pawer, BSc May 2021
... and youth. Among 10- to 17-year-old Canadians, 2140 young people were hospitalized due to self-poisoning during the ... provide free mental health services for children and young people up to 18 years old in BC, although a 2019 BC Coroners ... administered to a large representative sample of young people age 14 to 21 in Victoria, BC, in 2003 and 2005, 17% of ...
News May 2021
... death and her evolving courage to be involved with dying people. In the blog writers’ group, Paige Dean’s post ...
News, COVID-19 May 2021
... if they are eligible for early vaccines designated for people who are clinically extremely vulnerable, and, if they ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC June 2021
... surgery.[ 8 ] While prescreening can identify some people who are at increased risk of harboring COVID-19 ... prevalence rates, without preoperative testing, infected people will undergo elective surgery and have an increased ...
Letters / BY: Michelle Danda July/August 2021
... of Drug Users (VANDU) and the Canadian Association of People who Use Drugs (CAPUD) are instrumental in changing stereotypes of PWUD and engaging people with lived experience in the process of research and ... power imbalance. We must question the ethics of asking people who are accessing health care services for more ...
Letters / BY: Nickie Mathew, MD, MSc, ABPN, FRCPC, ABPM July/August 2021
... Some of the information may have not been new to people who work extensively in the field of addictions. ... Further, there are many examples of the experience of people who use drugs in the medical literature but very few examples of people who sell drugs. The goal of the article was to ...
News, COVID-19 July/August 2021
... of COVID-19 immunization for pregnant and breastfeeding people remain largely unknown. To fill the knowledge gap, UBC ... vaccine safety across all populations. How to take part People who are currently pregnant or breastfeeding are ...