Together for Health

Call for expansion of HPV vaccine program

September 14, 2016

The Canadian Cancer Society, along with 25 leading health organizations including Doctors of BC, is calling on the provincial government to expand its human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program to protect not only young women aged 9 to 26, but young men as well. 

While originally...
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Doctors support call for end to non-medical exemption for vaccinations

August 26, 2016

Doctors attending the Canadian Medical Association General Council in Vancouver voted to support a Doctors of BC motion to end non-medical exemptions that allow parents in some provinces to opt out of vaccinating their children.

This means the national group representing physicians will...
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vaccinations, CMA, CMA GC

How to offset the health risks of sitting 8 hours a day

July 28, 2016

We have heard a lot lately about the harmful effects from lack of activity particularly for people who sit for long periods of time in office jobs. In fact, sedentary behaviour has been called the “new smoking” because it’s associated with higher risks of mortality or suffering a chronic...
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Changes to Canada’s sun safety guidelines

June 24, 2016
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sun safety, sun, skin cancer
Assisted Death Legislation

Physician Assisted Death Legislation

June 1, 2016

The Doctors of BC strongly supports the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) in its call for a robust federal role in the implementation of medical assistance in dying, including both a legislative and non-legislative response to the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in Carter v. Canada. The...
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physician assisted death