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Clinical Articles / BY: Monica Dahiya, BSc March 2019
... major public health concern, with an estimated 71 million people being chronically infected with the virus ( ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Sofia R. Bartlett, PhD March 2019
... for a particular disease, and the number or portion of people progressing through each stage, thereby helping to ... BC demonstrates continued gaps in treatment uptake among people with a history of injection drug use.[ 4 ] Curing hepatitis C virus among people who inject drugs can prevent transmission to others, ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Shaila Jiwa, RN, BScN, MScPPH April 2019
... infectious agent.[ 1 ] In 2017, an estimated 10 million people developed TB disease globally, resulting in an ... deaths, with 300 000 of those deaths occurring in people living with HIV.[ 1 ] TB is not just an international ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Erika Ono, MSW, RSW April 2019
... and her parents. She is nonverbal and gets very upset if people talk about her in her presence. Harpreet is only ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM June 2019
... (MMR) vaccine is safe and effective, and most people have no adverse reaction following receipt of this ... or recent travel history, do not test for measles. Do people born before 1970 need to be immunized against measles? ... routine use will need to rely on vaccine-derived immunity. People born before 1970 are generally considered immune to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Gordon J.D. Cochrane, Ed. D., R. Psych. June 2019
... partner in a life-enhancing relationship as well. What people in loving primary relationships have in common is an ... their primary relationship comes first. High-performing people in many fields have to deal with the demands, time ... are created by two self-aware, emotionally healthy people. Successful physicians who want such a relationship ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Brandon Yau, MD July/August 2019
... consumption and subsequent excretion in urine or when people flush pills into the wastewater system.[ 3,5,10 ] ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC September 2019
... legalization, according to Statistics Canada, 27% of people age 15 to 24 and 13% of people 25 and older were using cannabis.[ 2 ] This amounted ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Joanna Cheek, MD, FRCPC October 2019
... cause of chronic illness in Canada. In 2016 one in five people were affected by a mental illness, nearly twice the ... psychologist typically falls under the private system for people with mild-to-moderate symptoms, making cost a major ... burden of stigma concerning mental health conditions. Many people with mental health conditions describe this stigma as ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: David M. Patrick, MD, FRCPC, MHSc November 2019
... can aid decisions on subsequent antibiotic therapy. Many people with minor reactions who receive the same agent years ...