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Editorials /
BY: David R. Richardson, MD
April 2009
... a natural, organic treatment that will make almost 100% of people feel better. Do you want to know what it is?” I ask. ...
Letters /
BY: Gerald J.M. Tevaarwerk, MD, FRCPC
April 2009
... effect. The placebo effect has been proven to make some people feel better, decreasing their anxiety, pain, and ...
Letters /
BY: Gavin Stuart, MD, Dean, UBC Faculty of Medicine,
April 2009
The Faculty of Medicine, now numbering 3600 people across the province, includes those who are ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Gerry Greenstone, MD,
May 2009
... the number of cases was already declining as a result of people leaving the area, Snow managed to reduce the number ... had numerous such organisms in their stools and healthy people did not. He described a “comma-shaped bacillus” ... But these factors are a gigantic challenge for millions of people living in poverty around the world. Thousands of ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC
May 2009
... the 1990s, crack cocaine has become more prevalent in BC. People who smoke crack may develop oral lesions and burns ... pipes, and HCV has been detected on crack paraphernalia. People who share crack pipes may therefore be at increased ... has hardened on the inside pipe wall. It was reported that people were using the plunger of syringes as push sticks, ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Wilma Arruda, MD,
May 2009
... me and I see new and expensive houses and cars. Many people I know are going on a winter holiday and yet, as a ... of the lives and well-being of children and young people in 21 nations of the industrialized world.[ 1 ] More ... to an economic argument: better health enables more people to participate in the economy, reducing the costs of ...
Family Practice Services Committee /
BY: Greg Dines,
May 2009
... this June. “Family physicians treat the vast majority of people who have mental health issues, and these issues are ...
Letters /
BY: Gavin Stuart, MD, Dean, UBC Faculty of Medicine,
May 2009
... heads, with further action being taken if required. People have become more aware of the benefits of transparency ...
News
May 2009
... new MDR-TB cases each year, but that fewer than 30 000 people were detected and notified last year and only 3681 are ... Africa, India, Uzbekistan, Georgia, and Armenia. News People with drug-resistant TB neglected by governments ...