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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Karen Rideout, PhD, January/February 2014
... ] Food security means more than having enough to eat. Even people depending on soup kitchens may get enough food, but ... exists where you may not expect it. New immigrants, people who lack food skills, working families, pensioners, university students, people with limited mobility, and residents of new suburban ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: A. Maria Chung, MDCM January/February 2014
... reaching a record high in the developed world. Many more people are now surviving illnesses that were previously ... patients with multiple complex comorbidities. Elderly people in hospital are at high risk not only for functional ...
Editorials / BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG January/February 2014
... completing a complicated surgical procedure that few other people could actually do. There was also the whole ritual aspect of surgery—something that people outside surgical specialties cannot really grasp. ...
Letters / BY: Allan Donkin, MD, January/February 2014
... entire community has to make—not just a choice that some people can make but an option that everyone else has to choose not to take. People can no longer rest in the knowledge that their ... a high level of credibility and acceptability, putting people under pressure to choose suicide. I do not think that ...
MDs To Be / BY: Greg Costello, January/February 2014
... of British Columbia’s Medical Undergraduate Program, people are generally focused on three areas of interest: the ...
News January/February 2014
... about who is responsible for the care of Aboriginal people. The report says that little attention has been paid ... health care for Aboriginal seniors and other Aboriginal people, citing the transfer of health authority to the new ...
News January/February 2014
Approximately 7000 people living in BC have an inherited heart rhythm condition, ...
News January/February 2014
... a condition that severely limits the vision of about 5000 people in North America. The development of this potential ...
News&Notes / BY: Michal Smialowski, MD, January/February 2014
... sunny day the following spring and we were hooked. People laughed when we told them we were moving away from ... were really bad, we would chain up our truck and shuttle people up from the main road after they radioed us (there was ... while in the confines of a helicopter. Since most people here live on acreages, the chopper can land in the ...
News&Notes / BY: Chris Fraser, MD, January/February 2014
... amazement I hear him thanking me: “Thank you to all the people of Canada. They have shown great leadership in the ...