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News September 2016
... Nutrition Examination Survey, a survey that samples 5000 people each year across the United States. The survey ...
News October 2016
... by a layperson to medicine or to the welfare of the people of British Columbia or Canada. The closing date for ...
News / BY: Claire Campion Wright, BSc, March 2016
... heart disease, and stroke, but medical advances mean that people are living longer after diagnosis. The Heart and ... to Canadian emergency departments. Some 105 000 of these people survive and join the more than 1.3 million Canadians ...
News September 2016
... services across Canada. It is estimated that 1 in 20 people experience depression each year. Joseph Puyat, a PhD ... or psychotherapy. They found that only 13% of people received at least four psychotherapy or counseling ... underestimate the full extent of the problem since many people do not seek or receive a diagnosis for their ...
Proust for Physicians / BY: David Patrick, MD, FRCPC, MHSc October 2016
... of negative energy. What is your greatest fear? White people playing bongos. What is the trait you most deplore in ... by choice. What medical advance do you most anticipate? People finally figuring out that personalized prevention has ... almost anything, and this can really be annoying to some people. What do you most value in your colleagues? ...
News May 2016
... the study strongly support routine HCV screening for all people born between 1945 and 1964, in line with recent US CDC ...
News September 2016
... won the AGE-WELL Pitch Competition: Technology to Support People with Dementia. The tablet-based assessment tool ... from the samples. Because of word-finding difficulties, people with Alzheimer disease will tend to pause more between ... provide family members with quantifiable updates, and help people plan when it’s time to transition to a higher level ...
News July/August 2016
... two families described in this study, two-thirds of the people with the mutation developed the disease. Canada has ... form of the disease, accounting for about 15% of people with MS. The discovery could also provide insight into ... Centre for Brain Health, suggests that the mutation puts people at the edge of a cliff, but something still has to ...
News November 2016
... in part that the modules improved their care for people with mental health issues and allowed them to provide ...
News May 2016
... 5-year, $59 million initiative to reduce the number of people who need dialysis or organ transplants, or who develop ... •    Broader screening, especially among indigenous people, who are more at risk of developing chronic kidney ... •    New ways of providing care, especially for people who live far from kidney specialists. One clinical ...