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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Brandon Yau, MD October 2018
... of as the provision of sterile injection supplies to people who use drugs or supervised consumption sites, harm ... and delivery of policy, programs, and services to benefit people who use substances, their families, and the community ... needle exchange in BC. From 2007 to 2016, HIV diagnoses in people who inject drugs declined from 118 to 16 cases, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Maureen Clement, MD, CCFP November 2018
... 2 , 3 ] Primary care physicians manage the majority of people living with diabetes, and more than 20% of a typical ... physician’s caseload will likely involve caring for people with either diabetes or prediabetes.[ 4 ] Not only is ... preferences and values are considered by consulting people with diabetes and reviewing the literature. Each ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Keith G. Dawson, MD, PhD, FRCPC November 2018
... rate of type 2 diabetes is 8.8%,[ 1 ] with Indigenous people being disproportionally affected.[ 2 ] In Canada, the ... in women.[ 3 ] It is predicted that one in two Indigenous people in their 20s will develop diabetes at some point in ... communities. This is of consequence, since many Indigenous people have had adverse experiences with authorities who are ...
Clinical Articles / BY: C. Bruce Verchere, PhD November 2018
... and have limited therapeutic options. With 1.4 million people impacted by prediabetes or diabetes in British ... risk in vulnerable populations, including Indigenous people and youth with mental illness. These studies have ... laboratory-based discoveries to improving the lives of people with diabetes. Islet biology is clearly a recognized ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Erin Fraser, DVM, MSc November 2018
... their feces, raccoon latrines represent a health risk to people and their pets. Baylisascaris eggs take from 2 to 4 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Andy Jiang, BSc December 2018
... can lead to unnecessary stigma for already marginalized people, and for this reason the term poisoning is preferred. ...
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