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Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Tonia Tauh, MD, FRCPC March 2021
... A rapid vaccine rollout has many roadblocks, from some people’s initial hesitancy to receive a novel vaccine to ... supply, our society must balance vaccinating as many people as possible in short order with the strict timing ... there was no difference in vaccine efficacy between the people who got their second dose at day 19 and the people who ...
Letters / BY: Anthony Walter, MD January/February 2021
... ] notes the steady decline in the proportion of people over 65 being started on opioids and the harm that ...
Letters / BY: Susan M. Lee, MD, FRCPC, MAS January/February 2021
... 3 ] with depression and anxiety rates similar to those in people with cancer; and feelings of regret, sadness, and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Samantha Pawer, BSc May 2021
... and youth. Among 10- to 17-year-old Canadians, 2140 young people were hospitalized due to self-poisoning during the ... provide free mental health services for children and young people up to 18 years old in BC, although a 2019 BC Coroners ... administered to a large representative sample of young people age 14 to 21 in Victoria, BC, in 2003 and 2005, 17% of ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC June 2021
... surgery.[ 8 ] While prescreening can identify some people who are at increased risk of harboring COVID-19 ... prevalence rates, without preoperative testing, infected people will undergo elective surgery and have an increased ...
Letters / BY: Michelle Danda July/August 2021
... of Drug Users (VANDU) and the Canadian Association of People who Use Drugs (CAPUD) are instrumental in changing stereotypes of PWUD and engaging people with lived experience in the process of research and ... power imbalance. We must question the ethics of asking people who are accessing health care services for more ...
Letters / BY: Nickie Mathew, MD, MSc, ABPN, FRCPC, ABPM July/August 2021
... Some of the information may have not been new to people who work extensively in the field of addictions. ... Further, there are many examples of the experience of people who use drugs in the medical literature but very few examples of people who sell drugs. The goal of the article was to ...
Letters / BY: Mandana Kaviani, MD September 2021
... the last week of June claimed the lives of more than 300 people. Based on a report from the Asthma and Allergy ...
Letters / BY: Roger Purnell, MBChB, FRCSC September 2021
... time. These patients will join the ever-ballooning pool of people waiting for unnecessary musculoskeletal MRIs. It also ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Philippa Hawley, FRCPC November 2021
... but the principles of cancer pain management apply to people living with many other serious chronic illnesses.[ 2 ] ... to loss of autonomy and the ability do the things that people used to enjoy, and because of fear of a painful ...