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News 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 ...
News 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 ...
News 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 ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP January/February 2019
... not a normal part of aging. The first support group for people with dementia was not formed until 1993, and it was ... Only in the past few years have memoirs been written by people with dementia. This pattern is a symptom of the stigma ... to learn from qualitative studies about the experience of people actually living with dementia.  A meta-synthesis ...
News March 2019
... that the drug is safe. One finding revealed that some people don’t consider cannabis to be a drug, making it ...
News / BY: Arun K. Garg, PhD, MD March 2019
... vision was global engagement and building links between people through health care. The conference started with ...
News 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 ...
News 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 ...
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, ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Steven Larigakis, MD March 2019
... of psychological, social, and physical aspects, and puts people at risk of adverse health outcomes, including falls, ... although its prevalence does rise with age, from 16% of people 65 years old to over 50% of those over 85.[ 3 ] ...