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Premise / BY: Paula B. Gordon, OBC, MD, FRCPC, FSBI May 2023
... breast tomosynthesis was approved by Health Canada in 2012, and several sites in BC acquired the technology. It is ... is widely used for screening in the United States. As of March 2022, 82% of American facilities had digital breast ... a modified mammogram machine, so claustrophobia is not an issue, and it is a fraction of the cost of MRI. However, it ...
Editorials / BY: Gail Knudson, MD, MEd, FRCPC January/February 2022
... the Standards of Care (1979, 1980, 1981, 1990, 1998, 2001, 2012); version 8 is expected to be published in 2022. The ... Transgender Health. This first part of this BCMJ  theme issue highlights health care service delivery and educational ... gender-affirming surgeries that are available in BC. The March issue will feature three more important areas related ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD May 2012
... and didn’t really think more about it. In January 2012 a group of Burnaby physicians wrote a letter to the ... Health Authority outlining their concerns around the issue of C. difficile at their hospital. Burnaby General ... some improved infection control measures. In early March this letter reached the media and it garnered ...