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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Emma Cumming, MSc January/February 2018
... Beach on English Bay. Crowds have grown from around 10 000 people in 2012 to 40 000 in 2017.[ 2,3 ] After noticing a ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC March 2018
... naloxone by providing no-cost take-home naloxone kits to people at risk of witnessing or experiencing an overdose. ... supportive-housing staff, and those who work directly with people at risk of overdose. This interactive, self-guided ... and pharmacies. Patients, friends, or family of people at risk of opioid overdose can complete a thorough ...
Letters / BY: Melissa Carr, DrTCM, BSc January/February 2018
... 8 August 2017).” That makes it sound like 25% of people who take Chinese herbs end up with liver damage. ... numbers) is correct, we still have no idea how many people that is. The statistic is meaningless. Next, the ... aware of the potential dangers of these products.” Some people think that the world of natural health products is ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Eleni Galanis, MD, MPH, FRCPC April 2018
... recently, nor has she had contact with other symptomatic people. A stool C&S performed at a walk-in clinic was ... and symptoms persist, a second O&P may be necessary. People are infected by ingesting contaminated food or water. ...
Letters / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC July/August 2018
... in the Journal of Alzheimer Disease . They recommend that people get tested for peptide amyloid beta protein 42 (Abeta ... disease would typically occur. If it’s elevated, these people should take daily ibuprofen to ward off the disease, ... of heart attack, stroke, and death. In addition, elderly people may have increased cardiovascular risk and disease. In ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews July/August 2018
... Spanish. Since moving to Vancouver I try to care for people in their first language, and in return they correct my ... spot, there is a mismatch between the jobs we are training people for and the jobs that are available. That is why I’m ... their work and personal lives and continue to grow as people and healers. They want models of support that allow ...
Letters / BY: Brian Brodie, MD September 2018
... the “same or better.” And so, our current products and people are not changing, they’re only going to be expanded ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM September 2018
... post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN). PHN is more common in older people, affecting 4% to 15% of zoster cases in people aged 50 to 59, 7% to 26% of cases in people aged 60 to 69, and 14% to 29% of cases in people 70 ...
Letters / BY: Zafar Essak, MD October 2018
... courage as a fundamental value at the company. We want people to speak the truth, and we say, ‘To disagree ...
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, ...