Rheumatoid arthritis, a chronic inflammatory disease, affects approximately 1% of the Canadian population and is twice as common in women as in men. The disease is very painful and brings with it functional disability, psychological distress, decreased ability to work and premature death.
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a brain-based disorder characterized by impaired social communication and repetitive or stereotypic behaviors that begin before three years of age. The prevalence of autism in the United States is about 1 in 88 children, but the prevalence in Canada is poorly defined.
Glomerulonephritis (GN) is a group of rare kidney diseases that has a high risk of progression to kidney failure, resulting in substantial comorbidity to patients and high costs to the health care system.
From left to right: Kim McGrail (Scientific Director, Population Data BC), Carolyn Gotay (Co-Director, UBC School of Population and Public Health), Dermot Kelleher (board member, BC SUPPORT Unit/BC Academic Health Science Network/Dean, UBC Faculty of Medicine), the Honourable Jane Philpott (Canada’s Minister of Health), Minnie Downey (Executive Director, BC SUPPORT Unit), the Hon
A spinal cord injury or SCI, occurs when trauma, (such as a fall or vehicle accident) or disease (such as a tumor or spina bifada) damages the spinal cord, resulting in partial or complete paralysis. It is estimated that 86,000 Canadians are currently living with SCI, with over 4,000 new cases every year.
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease of the brain and spinal cord often affecting young adults. Injectable disease modifying drugs (DMDs) to treat MS were introduced in Canada in 1995. In recent years, three new oral DMDs have been approved by Health Canada to treat MS, with two of them approved as first-line therapies.
As the global climate changes we are seeing more intense and frequent forest fires in British Columbia. Forest fires cause some of the worst air pollution that many Canadians will ever experience, and smoke affects everyone in exposed communities.
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