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Clinical Articles / BY: Réka Gustafson, MD, MSc, MHSc, FRCPC June 2007
... Public and political pressure to “do something” may well mount rapidly, especially if the pandemic virus ... of masks in public is a controversial and unresolved issue. Although surgical masks are not designed to protect ... randomized controlled trial published in the  Lancet  in 2005. [7]  Frequent hand washing and appropriate cough ...
News July/August 2007
... be read on its own. Those not facing a terminal illness may wish to focus on the introduction as well as the sections ... Open Enrollment will be coming your way in the September issue of the  BCMJ. —Sandie Braid, CEBS Assistant ... 2007. The first $10 million was distributed based on the 2005 Recruitment and Retention proposal that was developed by ...
News / BY: Tara Lyon April 2007
... and Miraculous Cures  by Vincent Lam, MD. Anchor Canada, 2005. ISBN 0-385-66144-4. Paperback, 353 pp. $17.95. So Dr ... a little book about the flu (reviewed in the December 2006 issue) and thinks he is an author. The “Laminator” has ... in a responsible manner is often a challenge. Patients may bring in their unused meds to doctors’ offices, and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hiram Mok, MA, MB BCh, BAO, FRCPC March 2007
... through family supports and alternative modalities and may only seek help from a family physician once these efforts ... for patients with physical and psychiatric illnesses, the issue of safety has become especially important. Herbs can ... with TCM use. Methods Data were collected between December 2005 and February 2006 using a standardized questionnaire ( ...
MDs To Be / BY: Lee MacKay, BSc, April 2007
... to the woes of the public health care system in BC, the issue of how best to fix the problems being faced by BC’s ... director, Saskatoon Community Clinic, 24 November 2005). Share prices are determined by the members of the ... British Columbia’s health cooperative movement may be able to transform our national health care system and ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Basil Boulton, MD October 2007
... the concept to the Council of Health Promotion in 2005. Working with partners including the UBC Department of ... diseases originate in childhood, and lifelong disabilities may be prevented with good perinatal and pediatric care. ... or lessen many of these problems. In the July/August 2005 issue of the BCMJ, the Child and Youth Health Committee ...
Letters / BY: Stephen Faulkner, MBChB July/August 2007
... and integrative medicine beliefs (see  Globe and Mail , May 1999). His involvement in the very unscientific “harm ... in reading some of the skeptical accounts of this issue ( e.g.,  http://dreamhealer.blogspot.com/ ). Dr ... interesting is that credits for this were given both in 2005 and then again this year. As much as I admire Dr ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Bruce Gamage, RN, CIC May 2006
... health care-facility norovirus outbreaks have brought the issue closer to home. These events made it clear that ... of existing knowledge, and good practice. [1] In January 2005, the BC Ministry of Health Services provided funding for ... horizontal, and non-hierarchical fashion. In May and December of 2005, PICNet held stakeholder summits, at ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP May 2006
... article on this topic appears in the 14 March 2006 issue of the CMAJ.) This means we all stand a better chance ... 30 but remain stable thereafter in both men and women. In May 2005, the Heart and Stroke Foundation (HSF) released its ...
Letters / BY: Leon Bard, MD, June 2006
The winter 2005 issue of the College  Quarterly  (51), a publication ... College  Quarterly  article highlighted a syndrome that may complicate cataract surgery in patients who take ...