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Beyond Medicine / BY: A.M. Ocana, MD, CCFP, ABAM January/February 2019
On 17 October 2018, Canada joined nine American states and Uruguay ... you’re looking at this scientifically, you might have an issue with the correlation of use to health risks, because ... urine drug screen, more than quadrupled between 2005 and 2014 (from 146 to 639).[ 25 ] That trend will continue ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Maureen Clement, MD, CCFP November 2018
... indicates that “For guidelines published after 2014, lists of contributors may be published on the ... these concerns, the Therapeutics Letter of September/October 2017 names canagliflozin and dapagliflozin as ... for their part in supporting the publication of this theme issue. Competing interests This and the other articles in the ...
Letters / BY: R.A. Rockerbie, PhD January/February 2017
... 1,2 ] An increase from 8.3% in 2013 to 17.0% in 2014 occurred following marijuana legalization in Washington. ... cause for sobering thought, as termed in an article in the October 2016 issue of the  BCMJ .[ 3 ] A meta-analysis, however, based on ...
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 ... indicators at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress in October 2016. This was an exciting achievement, but it ... November 2016. www.waittimealliance.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/CCS-Building-a-Heart-Healthy-Canada.pdf . Institute ...
Letters January/February 2015
In the October issue of the  BCMJ , Dr Bill Cavers commented on physician-assisted suicide [ BCMJ  2014;56:381 ]. Physicians on both sides of this matter can ... Canada decision.  However, when considering this serious issue, it is vital that the stance of each side is accurately ...
Editorials / BY: Margaret Colbourne, MD, FRCPC September 2015
Dr Margaret Colbourne Following the 2014 release of “Lost in the Shadows” from the ... of these children. This is the first of a two-part theme issue on child maltreatment. The first article is a brief ... In the second part of the theme issue, coming in the October  BCMJ , we present the articles “Abusive head ...
President's Comment / BY: Bill Cavers, MD October 2014
... in CMA's policy on euthanasia and assisted suicide. In the 2014 policy on this topic, medical aid in dying refers to a ... ill patients access to medical aid in dying, and in October, the Supreme Court of Canada will hear an appeal of a ... includes death. Canadian physicians are divided on this issue. Almost 50% of British Columbia's physicians are in ...
Letters / BY: Barry Munn, MD, December 2014
... An emerging medical and public health concern” in the October issue ( BCMJ  2014;56:386-390 ) raises many interesting points, and I ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Murray Trusler, MD, MBA, FCFP, FRRMS, October 2014
... stated clearly in a 2011  Therapeutics Letter , and the issue now needs to be addressed by Health Canada, the ... This is a revised version of the article published in the October 2014 issue ( BCMJ  2014;56:391-394). The author corrected an ...
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 ... few years an advocacy movement has been afoot in BC. On 22 October 2013, in response to increasing pressure from ... school at last. Changes were planned to start in January 2014, with full implementation scheduled for the start of the ...