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BC Renal Agency
March 10, 2010
World Kidney Day, March 11, is an internationally recognized day dedicated to raising awareness of kidney disease and the vital role that kidneys play in keeping us healthy.
BCCDC
March 9, 2010
Following a provincial product recall, the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control is warning the public not to consume Camembert cheese manufactured by Moonstruck Organic Cheese located on Saltspring Island. This recall is the result of a routine sampling program by the BCCDC, which revealed that one wheel of the finished product contained the Listeria monocytogenes bacteria. Other batches of product may also be affected.
BC Cancer
February 26, 2010
Scientists at the BC Cancer Agency and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute have generated a promising new method that may one day aid oncologists in the faster identification of which chemotherapy regimens may be useful for treating a particular patient’s non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and which are unlikely to be effective.
Government/Ministry of Health
February 15, 2010
Nine projects to build further capacity for intensive and highly specialized mental health services in the Lower Mainland got underway today with the release of Requests for Proposal (RFP) for design and renovation work to accommodate the transfer of patients from Riverview Hospital.
BC Mental Health
February 4, 2010
Forty-four beds for adults with severe mental illness and substance use disorders will be opened on the Riverview grounds to provide transitional, long-term supportive housing, announced Health Services Minister Kevin Falcon.
BC Cancer
February 1, 2010
KELOWNA – A new, state-of-the-art radiation therapy treatment unit and a brachytherapy suite was officially opened today at the BC Cancer Agency’s Centre for the Southern Interior, which will help more patients from the Interior get better cancer care, closer to home.
PHSA
January 28, 2010
KELOWNA – The Province has approved funding for the Interior Heart and Surgical Centre (IHSC) project, which will build on the cardiac transition plan currently underway at Kelowna General Hospital (KGH) and provide cardiac care closer to home for patients throughout the Interior, Premier Gordon Campbell announced today.
BC Cancer
January 28, 2010
VANCOUVER, BC – Beginning in mid-January 2010, BC Cancer Agency’s Screening Mammography Program (SMP) is expanding the Fast Track Referral System (Fast Track) to provide all physicians in the province with access to the program designed to reduce the time between an abnormal screening mammography result and access to further diagnostic investigation.
BC Cancer
January 18, 2010
Scientists from the BC Cancer Agency have discovered a never before seen DNA spelling mistake, or mutation, in a gene called EZH2 in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and follicular lymphoma, the two most common types of non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
BC Cancer
January 18, 2010
Today the BC Cancer Agency Centre for the North project took a major step forward with the signing of the final partnership agreement with Plenary Health.
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