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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Brandon Yau, MD October 2018
... morbidity and mortality associated with activities that may cause harm. Harm reduction applied to substance use is a ... hepatitis C virus and HIV transmission.[ 5 ] Therefore, in 2003, consistent with best practice, needle distribution and ... harm-reduction services. Physicians can help address the issue of marginalization by examining their own assumptions ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Bruce Gamage, RN, CIC May 2006
Recent outbreaks in Canada, including the 2003 SARS outbreak, and the emergence of a virulent strain ... health care-facility norovirus outbreaks have brought the issue closer to home. These events made it clear that ... horizontal, and non-hierarchical fashion. In May and December of 2005, PICNet held stakeholder summits, at ...
Editorials / BY: Howard Feldman, MD, FRCPC September 2004
... very apprehensive about the costs of treatment. This theme issue provides an up-to-date clinical perspective on AD care ... (TREAD) consensus conference, which was held in January 2003 to address state-of-the-art symptomatic treatment for ... the use of ChEIs in BC is equal to other provinces. This may be the most telling cost-effectiveness study of all. ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: M. Fyfe, MD, MSc June 2004
... continued its westward spread across North America in 2003, but did not enter British Columbia. The risk that the ... illnesses were West Nile fever, a dengue-like illness that may present with fever, headache, fatigue, myalgia, ... to the related paper by Dr Bigham on page 220 of this issue of the BCMJ. Reportability in BC Physicians must report ...