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Billing Tips / BY: Janet Evans, MD, CFPC, FCFP July/August 2021
This article originally appeared in the May 2016 issue of the BCMJ . As this subject continues to pose a ...
Billing Tips / BY: Janet Evans, MD, CFPC, FCFP September 2021
This article originally appeared in the June 2016 issue of the BCMJ . As this subject continues to pose a ... July/August issue of the BCMJ we described how physicians may be affected by the Laboratory Services Act. The Act ...
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 ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Afsaneh Moradi July/August 2018
... as many as 60% of youth who are worried about a health issue do not consult a health care provider and avoid going to a doctor’s office.[ 2 ] This may be due to barriers like transportation challenges for ... school clinic at John Barsby Secondary School in 2016. The clinic’s care team includes doctors, public ...
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 ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Tania Morrison, MHSc, RD June 2017
... access to food due to financial constraints.”[ 3 ] The 2016  Priority Health Equity Indicators for British ... going without food.[ 1 ] Research shows that families may use strategies such as delaying payments for bills or ... impact food insecurity as they cannot address the issue of poverty.[ 4,6,7 ] Physicians can support their ...
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 ...