George Vancouver was descended, through his father, from the honourable Netherlands family of van Coeverdenl and his mother could trace her ancestry to Sir Richard Grenville, the great Elizabethan seadogs2 That pedigree was no doubt a factor in achieving an introduction to Captain James Cook for, at the tender age of 14, the young Vancouver joined the Resolution to accompany Cook on his second ...

Radon is a naturally occurring harmful radioactive gas and the second leading cause of lung cancer (WHO, 2021). Canada gets very high number immigrants every year immigrant population increasing dramatically (Government Canada, 2005). Assessing immigrants’ knowledge in metro Vancouver on radon can help identify whether education for needed to aid prevention cancer.

At present, various scar assessment scales are available, but not one has been shown to be reliable, consistent, feasible, and valid at the same time. Furthermore, the existing scar assessment scales appear to attach little weight to the opinion of the patient. The newly developed Patient and Observer Scar Assessment Scale consists of two numeric scales: the Patient Scar Assessment Scale (patie...

The prevalence of HIV in Vancouver, British Columbia was subject to two distinct periods of rapid increase. The first occurred in the 1980s due to high incidence among men who have sex with men (MSM), and the second occurred in the 1990s due to high incidence among injection drug users (IDU). The purpose of this study was to estimate and model the trends in HIV prevalence in Vancouver from 1980...

Background: Surgical complications after liver transplantation are known to contribute to morbidity and mortality. Evaluation of complication rates is a crucial part of assessing transplant program performance and identifying areas for improvement. A study was proposed to determine complication rates and outcomes using BC Transplant data. Methods: Patients undergoing deceased-donor liver transp...