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BY: Jill Norris, MD, CCFP
May 2024
... and have come to this conclusion: good health care enables people to live their best lives. Good health care shows up ...
Letters /
BY: Derryck H. Smith, MD, FRCPC
March 2024
... that we are setting a very poor example for young people by normalizing drug use. Contrary to the editorial, I ...
Letters /
BY: Mark Mallet, MD, CCFP
March 2024
... [ BCMJ 2023;65:365-366]: “as many as 225 000 [people] are at risk of poisoning from unregulated drugs, [but] only 4476 people were prescribed safe supply medications in July ... The impression these numbers give is that fewer than 5000 people out of 225 000 are receiving treatment. In both Dr ...
Letters /
BY: Michael Schwandt, MD, MPH
March 2024
... decreased drug poisoning and all-cause mortality among people receiving safer supply.[ 1 ] The number of people at risk of illicit drug poisoning in BC is large, and ... a team of BC researchers identified a provincial cohort of people with substance use disorder comprising 162 099 ...
News
January/February 2024
... over the next 3 years by age group, starting with people 55 and older. All self-collected samples will be ...
Letters /
BY: Min Jung Kim, BHSc
January/February 2024
... may affect the mental and emotional health of Indigenous people. For instance, one study identified that environmental ...
Letters /
BY: Michael Cooper, MD, FRCPC
May 2024
... lives. Artificial intelligence will be a game changer for people with ADHD, but having a basic understanding of ...
Letters /
BY: Darren Jakubec, MD
June 2023
... the existing system. I truly believe it would benefit more people, regardless of income. —Darren Jakubec, MD Smithers ...
News
December 2023
... aims to replace the insulin-producing beta cells that people with type 1 diabetes lack. Dubbed VC-02, the small ... News Stem cell–based treatment controls blood sugar in people with type 1 diabetes ...