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BC Centre for Disease Control, COVID-19 / BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC July/August 2020
... (COVID-19) is taking a devastating toll globally. As of May 2020, there have been 76 000 cases of COVID-19 ... an ongoing public health emergency was declared in April 2016 related to high rates of drug overdose deaths. In the ... making it difficult to determine implicated substances and issue meaningful community alerts. Overdose deaths increased ...
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 ... replaced the policy of needle exchange in BC. From 2007 to 2016, HIV diagnoses in people who inject drugs declined from ... harm-reduction services. Physicians can help address the issue of marginalization by examining their own assumptions ...
News September 2016
... to remember details that begins in early midlife (the 40s) may be the result of a change in what information the brain ... across the adult lifespan,” was published in the October 2016 issue of Neuro-Image . This research was supported by the ...
News October 2016
... hormone receptor, and that there are drugs available that may block that hormone receptor in normal cells and prevent ... of Crohn’s disease,” is published in the September 2016 issue of Science Immunology and is available online at ...
News September 2016
... benefit from hearing screening?” was published in the May/June 2016 issue of Ear and Hearing . News Seniors with undiagnosed ...
News March 2016
... by surgically removing the tumors. The findings may also influence treatment of the disease elsewhere. ... Evidence of Clonality” is published in the June 2016 issue of the  Journal of the National Cancer Institute ...
News September 2016
... adolescents: A systematic review,” is published in the May 2016 issue of the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry . The ...