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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP April 2008
... If you are anything like me (one of those average people who put on weight in their thirties and forties), once ... with normal weight unfit individuals, the obese fit people had a lower mortality than those who were unfit and ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM April 2008
... a major public health problem worldwide. Over 2.4 billion people in more than 90 countries—40% of the world’s ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD May 2008
... to reduce the impact of injury, illness, and age on people’s lives and work, and help them remain fully engaged ... called “preventing needless work disability by helping people stay employed” for the American College of ... guideline answers two fundamen­tal questions: Why do some people who develop common problems like backache, wrist pain, ...
News May 2008
... the social and economic costs of head injuries in young people.  The film will be screened at the Vancity Theatre ...
Letters / BY: Ray Baker, MD May 2008
... we treat on a daily basis. The argument that “people are dying” and “we must do something” cannot be ...
Letters / BY: Doug McFee, MD May 2008
... their AGM for several years. I personally contacted the people involved for the Law Society and arranged for this ...
ICBC / BY: Anita Gill, May 2008
... kill at least one person and result in more than 215 people being injured. Some of these injuries are life ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD May 2008
... write a letter to your local newspaper—get involved, let people know how bad it really is.  I find myself worrying ...
Editorials / BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG May 2008
Flying used to be such an adventure, and people actually got dressed up if they were traveling by air. ... no fatalities at all).  I also hate it when uninvolved people become armchair critics, but here goes anyway. The ... environments; by and large, hospitals are filled with sick people, and passenger aircraft are full of (generally) ...
Back Page / BY: Conrad Moralis, MD, May 2008
... in Vancouver, at times approach­ing sleeping homeless people, leaving a cup by their side and walking away.  When ... husband wanted to call him Jesus, but the Vital Statistics people told us that Jesus was not a proper name for a child ...