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Premise / BY: Christopher O.Y. Li, BSc May 2021
... fatal and independent shootings of two young Indigenous people, Rodney Levi and Chantel Moore, by police in New ... determinants of health as “the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age.” Although these ... nutritionally fortified foods in the diets of Indigenous people after widespread hunger and malnutrition in Canadian ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC June 2021
... surgery.[ 8 ] While prescreening can identify some people who are at increased risk of harboring COVID-19 ... prevalence rates, without preoperative testing, infected people will undergo elective surgery and have an increased ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Philippa Hawley, FRCPC November 2021
... but the principles of cancer pain management apply to people living with many other serious chronic illnesses.[ 2 ] ... to loss of autonomy and the ability do the things that people used to enjoy, and because of fear of a painful ...
Premise, COVID-19 / BY: Nickie Mathew, MD, MSc, ABPN, FRCPC, ABPM January/February 2021
... parts of heroin, sugar, and other substances. He has seen people make fentanyl twice by mixing carfentanil with other ... Another downside was dealing with overdoses: “Some people can’t take it because you are killing people. What you’re selling can kill someone.” ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP November 2021
... through the bowel, but this makes them well tolerated in people on dialysis or with significant renal failure.[ 8 , 9 ... suited to Patient A’s pharmacogenomics. Up to 25% of people have polymorphisms in the genes that control opioid ... rate of ultrarapid metabolism at 21%, and Europeans and people of Jewish lineage have the highest rate of poor ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Tonia Tauh, MD, FRCPC March 2021
... A rapid vaccine rollout has many roadblocks, from some people’s initial hesitancy to receive a novel vaccine to ... supply, our society must balance vaccinating as many people as possible in short order with the strict timing ... there was no difference in vaccine efficacy between the people who got their second dose at day 19 and the people who ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ray Markham, MB ChB, MRCGP, FCFP December 2021
... intersectional approach was also imperative. Historically, people who identify as men have dominated the health ... service sector workers.[ 11 ] Additionally, First Nations people experience disproportionally negative health outcomes ... action items. Partnership groups consisted of people from different organizations or groups coming together ...
Premise / BY: John Liu, MD January/February 2021
... of potential eye disease, only half (54%) of these people reach out to a health care professional about their ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Sonny Thiara, MD October 2020
... 2 ] As of 6 September 2020, more than 27 million people worldwide have been infected and more than 900 000 ...
Premise / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD May 2020
... auditory, or olfactory stimulation to the point that some people may feel intruded upon and react negatively. Today we ... circumstances, the interpersonal distance chosen by people depends on attitudes toward each other, as well as ... neighborhoods, cities, and even countries. Overall, people are resilient to short-term social distancing, ...