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Letters / BY: Ruth Habte, MD September 2022
... me one for free.” It quickly became apparent that the issue was not obtaining a prescription or finding a provider ... by taking care of people in abusive relationships, who may be in high-socioeconomic-status households but have no ... savings for this kind of program are well established. A 2010 study from Options for Sexual Health estimated that ...
Letters / BY: Stuart Kreisman, MD January/February 2018
... ] and of course I agree very strongly. You may recall my Premise piece, “Toward smoke-free multi-unit ... various levels of government have done little to move this issue forward over the last 6 years. Things are much better ... unit through various connections (which happened to us in 2010 in another place, ultimately forcing us to move) the ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Sophie Y. Wang, BSc, July/August 2014
... antimicrobial resistance demonstrates the severity of this issue and calls for concerted action among all government ... resource-constrained settings.[ 1 ] The use of carbapenems may also accelerate the development of carbapenem resistance, ... of  E. coli  to ciprofloxacin increased between 2007 and 2010 and is reported to be at 25.3% in 2012.[ 2 ] The ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Catherine Elliott, MD, July/August 2011
... Two Health Canada re­calls of children’s jewelry in 2010 serve as reminders that avoidable sources of lead exposure for children are still an issue.  There is no known safe level of lead exposure. ... into cases of toxic exposures where the public may be at risk—for example those involving exposure in ...
Letters / BY: Ray Baker, MD May 2008
... it in our practices with our patients. What we take issue with is a major trial (3000 patients by 2010) using a highly vulnerable population based on studies ... to pause and reflect that something intuitively obvious may not lead to the best outcomes. We did not ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2007
... became involved with the BCMA, were you motivated by some issue or problem that you wanted to solve? I was probably ... the BCMA. The societies are doing a good job, and in fact, may need more help to do things. They’re doing a huge ... We’re a long way from any further negotiations—2010, just for the reopener. So we’ve got lots of time to ...
Interviews / BY: Michael Golbey, MD September 2005
... of the public system by doing some of it privately. That may simply mean publicly funded procedures being done in ... Committee on revitalizing family practice will be a big issue. Increased funding going to general practice is a good ... a bit about the UBC Medicine site in the Okanagan? Yes, in 2010 I believe there will be 32 spaces, and everybody in the ...