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News March 2015
... for patients on the organ transplant wait list. Over 450 people in BC are currently waiting for a lifesaving ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Patrick Tang, MD, PhD, April 2015
Every year approximately 300 people in BC are diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB) ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Jeffrey R. Brubacher, MD, April 2015
... of controlling for tolerance, and the fact that many people use multiple psychotropic medications. Benzodiazepines ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brenda Hefford, MD April 2015
... Strategies include attachment mechanisms that connect people with a family physician/primary care provider; ...
Obituaries / BY: Brian Day, MB April 2015
... medical students, graduating in 1954. He was one of the people primarily responsible for the medical school ...
President's Comment / BY: Bill Cavers, MD April 2015
... When the subject of governance comes up in conversation, people’s eyes usually glaze over. Many find it to be a ...
Proust for Physicians / BY: Benjamin Ross, MD, April 2015
... your heroes? I see heroes every day—essentially ordinary people having to deal with extraordinary hardships. What is ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Martha J. Ignaszewski, May 2015
... rates climbing.[ 2 ] Compared with the general population, people with schizophrenia have a risk of premature death that ... rates are decreasing globally, they are increasing in people with schizophrenia,[ 5 ] likely due to ... (DM) and CAD,[ 8 ] and is significantly more common in people with schizophrenia. Compared with 25% of people in the ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD May 2015
... out there. I don’t mean me, but maybe some of you smart people could figure this out. I’m sure I made Victor Hugo ...
Editorials / BY: Susan E. Haigh, MD May 2015
... continue, we will begin to see a generation of young people dying before their parents of diseases that have ...