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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Karen Rideout, PhD, January/February 2014
... version of the article published in the January/February 2014 issue ( BCMJ  2014;56:29,46). The BC Centre for Disease ... enough to eat. Even people depending on soup kitchens may get enough food, but the food they receive is often of ...
News&Notes / BY: Lila Yewchuk, MD, FRCPC, March 2014
... with Type 1 Diabetes” was published in the June 2012 issue of the  BC Medical Journal  ( BCMJ  2012;54:232-237 ... school at last. Changes were planned to start in January 2014, with full implementation scheduled for the start of the ... examples of independent plans and other documents that may be of assistance to parents. Further details regarding ...
Letters / BY: William Gardner, MBChB, April 2014
On 10 February 2014, André Picard’s column in the  Globe and Mail ... I was heartened to see that the January/February 2014 issue of the  BC Medical Journal  had four items on the ... issues. The core problem is a moral one. Though we may disagree with our patients’ moral values, in most cases ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Gil Kimel, MSc June 2014
... HF mortality.[ 5 ] Serum b-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) may be helpful for prognostication as well, since BNP levels ... is a revised version of the article published in the June 2014 issue ( BCMJ  2014;56:224-229). The authors corrected an ...
Letters June 2014
... happy to read [Dr Richardson’s] March editorial ( BCMJ  2014;56:73 ) last week—I am seriously behind on my reading. ... Of interest to you might be an article published in the May 2009 issue of the  Journal of the American College of Surgeons .[ ...
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 ... is available at  www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2014/amr-report/en . To evaluate the scope of the issue, ... resource-constrained settings.[ 1 ] The use of carbapenems may also accelerate the development of carbapenem resistance, ...
Letters / BY: C. Eve Rotem, MD, July/August 2014
... all too often. I am glad to see discussions on this thorny issue are finally beginning. Without an accepted policy being ... this difficult problem (to the best of our abilities in 2014). And I believe the problem should be discussed with a ... years. This discussion has been started in the April and May issues of the  BC Medical Journal  and that is an ...
News July/August 2014
... in Antiviral Immunity,” is published in the May 2014 issue of  Nature Medicine  and is available online ...
News July/August 2014
... levels can dramatically affect learning and memory, and may play a role in the cognitive deficits associated with ... β-catenin Stabilization in Vivo,” is published in June 2014 issue of the  Proceedings of the National Academy of ...
News&Notes / BY: Joanne Jablkowski July/August 2014
Annual Business Meeting and General Assembly  Saturday, 31 May 2014 • Pan Pacific Hotel, Vancouver This year’s Annual ... clarified that the increase came largely from a severance issue that occurred, not primarily from hiring new staff. Dr ...