Background While we have recently documented the relatively good health and personal health practices of Canadian physicians collectively, no one has considered data on the physical and mental... Read More
With the publication of “Factors of risk in the development of coronary heart disease—six year follow-up experience. The Framingham Study” in the Annals of Internal Medicine in 1961, coronary heart... Read More
The Greek physician Hippocrates was first to describe the analgesic effects of bark from the willow tree, a salicylate-containing plant. Although the mechanism through which willow bark relieved... Read More
Tularemia is a zoonotic disease caused by Francisella tularenis, which is endemic in British Columbia and other parts of Canada.[1,2] There are various clinical presentations, and diagnosis may be... Read More
By the mid-20th century it was well known that ventricular arrhythmias were the mechanism of death in a large proportion of patients with cardiac disease. The 1960s brought with them the advent of... Read More