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Premise / BY: Paula B. Gordon, OBC, MD, FRCPC, FSBI May 2023
... of their breast density and the associated risks in 2009. Supplemental screening with ultrasound or MRI ... the benefits of screening women in this age group. In October 2018, BC became the first province in Canada to ... a modified mammogram machine, so claustrophobia is not an issue, and it is a fraction of the cost of MRI. However, it ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Keith G. Dawson, MD, PhD, FRCPC November 2018
... of medications and services than non-Indigenous people. In October 2017 FNHA joined BC Pharmacare and the new plan Plan ... in remote locations. Established in 2003 and expanded in 2009 to cover almost all First Nations communities in ... for their part in supporting the publication of this theme issue. Competing interests This and the other articles in the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Courtney Young, MBA, MD, FRCPC December 2017
... attention was focused on how QI could favorably affect the issue of medical errors. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) was ... Building a Heart Healthy Canada , was published in 2009.  One of the few recommendations from the strategy that ... indicators at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress in October 2016. This was an exciting achievement, but it ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Margaret Colbourne, MD, FRCPC October 2015
... 2001 Joint Statement on Shaken Baby Syndrome.[ 9,10 ] In 2009, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended adopting ... This is a revised version of the article published in the October 2015 issue ( BCMJ  2015;57:331-335). The author corrected an ...
Letters / BY: Robert Shepherd, MD December 2013
... regard to the Council on Health Promotion article in the October issue of the  BCMJ  [The senior driver in BC: Reaching the ... the 2209 Canadians who died in motor vehicle accidents in 2009, 389 were over age 65, a higher incidence than any other ...
Letters / BY: Roy C. Schofer, MD, December 2009
... to your depiction of a psychiatric patient on the October cover. Totally inappropriate and unfeeling for a ... to write to you about the appalling cover on the October 2009 issue. If the face on the cover is supposed to represent a ...