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Sunday, November 22, 2009

The association between food insecurity and mortality among HIV-infected individuals on HAART.

30 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Food insecurity is increasingly recognized as a barrier to optimal treatment outcomes, but there is little data on this issue. We assessed associations between food insecurity and mortality among HIV-infected antiretroviral ... Read more...

Prevalence and characteristics of home Internet access in patients with cardiovascular disease from diverse geographical locations.

29 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: Patients living outside of urban centres do not have access to the same level of care as patients in cities. The use of the Internet has been suggested as a possible resolution to this geographic inequity. OBJECTIVE: To identify the ... Read more...

The impact of replacing heavy passenger vehicles (LTVs and SUVs) in the British Columbia fleet with lighter versions.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: The study reported in this article addressed the potential safety impact of consumer movement toward smaller vehicle choices by examining the makeup of the full British Columbia (BC) vehicle fleet--from smaller cars to heavy commercial ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'British Columbia'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The association between food insecurity and mortality among HIV-infected individuals on HAART. 30 Oct 2009
• Prevalence and characteristics of home Internet access in patients with cardiovascular disease from diverse geographical locations. 29 Sep 2009
• The impact of replacing heavy passenger vehicles (LTVs and SUVs) in the British Columbia fleet with lighter versions. 29 Sep 2009
• New student medical journal launched. 19 Sep 2009
• Doctors without borders in British Columbia. 13 Sep 2009
• Re: Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia outcomes after treatment: long-term follow-up from the British Columbia Cohort Study. 2 Sep 2009
• Sex differences in humeral bilateral asymmetry in two hunter-gatherer populations: California Amerinds and British Columbian Amerinds. 30 Aug 2009
• The effect of compensation status on waiting time for elective surgical lumbar discectomy. 30 Aug 2009
• Decision making in patient-initiated elective cesarean delivery: the influence of birth stories. 30 Aug 2009
• Percutaneous coronary intervention and 30-day mortality: the British Columbia PCI risk score. 30 Aug 2009
• Registered nurses' perceptions of moral distress and ethical climate. 30 Aug 2009
• Outcomes of planned home birth with registered midwife versus planned hospital birth with midwife or physician. 29 Aug 2009
• Misadventures in the Burgess Shale. 18 Aug 2009
• Proportional hazards frailty models for recurrent methadone maintenance treatment. 9 Aug 2009
• Prevalence and structural correlates of gender based violence among a prospective cohort of female sex workers. 9 Aug 2009
• Thiazolidinediones and fractures in men and women. 8 Aug 2009
• An agent-based approach for modeling dynamics of contagious disease spread. 3 Aug 2009
• Comparing and integrating community-based and science-based approaches to prioritizing marine areas for protection. 30 Jul 2009
• Phytoremediation of metal-contaminated soil in temperate humid regions of British Columbia, Canada. 30 Jul 2009
• Environmental change controls postglacial forest dynamics through interspecific differences in life-history traits. 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'British Columbia'

Definition: A province of Canada on the Pacific coast. Its capital is Victoria. The name given in 1858 derives from the Columbia River which was named by the American captain Robert Gray for his ship Columbia which in turn was named for Columbus. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p178 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p81-2)

Descriptor UI: D001955

Alternative terms: British Columbia;

Allowable Qualifiers: ethnology; epidemiology;

Tree Number: Z01.107.567.176.160;

Technical Notes: a province of Canada on the Pacific coast