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January/February 2019
... and maintenance of vitamin D serum levels to help people affected by multiple sclerosis. Research has shown a ... provide information for at-risk populations as well as people diagnosed with MS. The document also highlights ... with 11 Canadians diagnosed with the disease every day. People with biological family members who have MS are at ...
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January/February 2019
... include: Life expectancy among Status First Nations people improved between 2005 and 2015, but the life ... groups, but the rate of increase for First Nations people declined, resulting in an overall decrease in the ... jointly monitor the health and well-being of First Nations people in BC for the next 10 years with an expanded suite of ...
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January/February 2019
... the University of Waterloo. Researchers found that even if people weren’t good at it, drawing, as a method to help ... of a series of studies, the researchers asked both young people and older adults to do a variety of memory-encoding ... adults. Retention of new information typically declines as people age due to deterioration of critical brain structures ...
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March 2019
... that the drug is safe. One finding revealed that some people don’t consider cannabis to be a drug, making it ...
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BY: Arun K. Garg, PhD, MD
March 2019
... vision was global engagement and building links between people through health care. The conference started with ...
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March 2019
... School of Nursing, Kelowna, has determined that people diagnosed with terminal cancer—who have hope, ... each year, 8.2 million cancer deaths, and 32.6 million people living with cancer. Historically, researchers have ... participants’ awareness of dying, which differed from people living with chronic illness, and was a unique aspect ...
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March 2019
A new project aimed at supporting people transitioning back to their communities when they are ... by the BC Coroners Service in 2018. Of those, 10% (333 people) died within their first month of release from a ... throughout BC aim to address this problem by helping people with opioid-use disorders access treatment in their ...
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April 2019
... (STI) testing removes some of the barriers that prevent people from getting tested while providing key information ... online sexual health service in BC and is available to people living in Metro Vancouver and, in partnership with ... have been completed since it launched in 2014, and 43% of people have used it for testing more than once. While online ...
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April 2019
... of treatment, management of sepsis for the 30 million people who develop it each year relies on infection control ...