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Letters / BY: Mark Mallet, MD, CCFP March 2024
... [ BCMJ 2023;65:365-366]: “as many as 225 000 [people] are at risk of poisoning from unregulated drugs, [but] only 4476 people were prescribed safe supply medications in July ... The impression these numbers give is that fewer than 5000 people out of 225 000 are receiving treatment. In both Dr ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Kevin E. Liang, MD, CCFP January/February 2024
... also known as decarbonization, is imperative to protect people from these harms. One of the most pressing issues in ...
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 ...
Letters / BY: Michael Schwandt, MD, MPH March 2024
... decreased drug poisoning and all-cause mortality among people receiving safer supply.[ 1 ] The number of people at risk of illicit drug poisoning in BC is large, and ... a team of BC researchers identified a provincial cohort of people with substance use disorder comprising 162 099 ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Curtis May, MD, MPH, CCFP Early online
... not work alone during hot conditions. Working with other people can allow for mutual monitoring for signs of heat ...
Obituaries / BY: Gillian Hodge, MD January/February 2024
... Bella Bella. In those days, evacuation of sick and injured people from remote communities was difficult. Roger had to ... assistance. He gained the trust and friendship of many people along the Central Coast—friendships that endured for ... manner made him many friends among the local Indigenous people. In the mid-1980s, Roger moved to Vancouver, where he ...
Obituaries / BY: Al Kallas, MD March 2024
... one of the smallest boats in the harbor, with the most people in the cockpit. There were many cruises, including to ...
Letters / BY: Min Jung Kim, BHSc January/February 2024
... may affect the mental and emotional health of Indigenous people. For instance, one study identified that environmental ...
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 ...
Letters / BY: Michael Cooper, MD, FRCPC May 2024
... lives. Artificial intelligence will be a game changer for people with ADHD, but having a basic understanding of ...