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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Drona Rasali, PhD, FACE May 2020
... and the health care resources required to manage it may be much greater than the sum of single diseases.[ 2 , 3 ] ... increasingly becoming a key public health and primary care issue in the prevention and management of chronic diseases.[ ... conditions had a multimorbidity prevalence of 12.9% in 2011/12.[ 3 ] BCCDC’s recent analysis of 16 chronic ...
News July/August 2013
... body in 15 minutes. This homegrown innovation won the 2011 “Best of What’s New” award from Popular Science, a ... for in vivo skin cancer diagnosis,” published in the May 2012 issue of Cancer Re­search. The article can be viewed at ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC March 2012
... motor vehicle crashes. From 1 October 2010 to 30 September 2011, there were 68 alcohol-related motor vehicle deaths ... in exactly the positive changes that would be expected. In May 2011, opponents of the new laws launched a legal ... of the immediate roadside prohibition program.  At issue was whether the immediate roadside prohibition program ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC June 2012
Opioid overdose is a public health issue in British Columbia. In 2009, more than 200 deaths were ... were in persons prescribed opioid medication.[ 3 ]  In May 2011, the BC Coroners Service released a warning about a ...
News September 2011
... or death by up to 25%. The guidelines are published in the May/June 2011 issue of the Canadian Journal of Cardiology,  ...
News&Notes / BY: Kashmira Suraliwalla July/August 2011
... Business Meeting and General Assembly Saturday, 11 June 2011 Vancouver Convention Centre 2011/2012 BCMA elected ... with the UBC Faculty of Medicine. He pointed out that the issue of “transparency” that had been mentioned on ... from broken families and families in distress. They may be in government care. Or they may have parents with ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Bill Mackie, MD November 2011
... which prevalent antibiotic use is of concern. In the June 2011 issue of Microbe, the report “Restricting anti­microbial ... Now that this is CMA policy the future of medical care may favorably alter, particularly for infectious disease and ...
News&Notes / BY: Jay Draper July/August 2010
2010/2011 BCMA elected officers Dr Ian Gillespie, President Dr ... Dr Erik Paterson from Creston mentioned the perennial issue of low attendance at these meetings, stating that he ... at AGMs is the norm for similar organizations. It may be that, given the many opportunities for input that ...