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Proust for Physicians / BY: Réka Gustafson, MD, MSc, MHSc, FRCPC January/February 2015
... for a couple of days. On what occasion do you lie? When people ask me about my height. Which words or phrases do you ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jenny M. Young, MSW, MA December 2015
... such as HIV.[ 7 ] There is widespread devaluation of people with serious psychiatric illness,[ 4 ] and health care ...
Clinical Articles / BY: James G. Huang, MD, PGDipSurgAnat, FRACS, September 2014
... in  Table 2 . PSA increases with age and is higher in people of certain races, such as African Americans. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kasandra Harriman, MD, CCFP, November 2014
... morbidity and mortality,[ 1 ] especially among elderly people, who are more likely to have comorbid conditions and ... of medication effects in older patients. Elderly people living in residential care facilities are at ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michelle D. Sherwood, MD, December 2014
... respiratory secretions, or close contact with infected people.[ 4 ] Peak EV transmission occurs in the summer and ... include hand washing and avoiding contact with ill people.  Summary A recent case in British Columbia ... know that hand washing and avoiding close contact with ill people can prevent transmission. A broad range of tests for ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sophia Wong, MD, FRCPC September 2013
... complete penetrance, hFH affects an estimated 13 million people worldwide;[ 5 ] however, less than 25% of these ... with hFH live in Canada, with about 8000 of these people residing in British Columbia.[ 33 ] According to a ... With a prevalence rate of approximately 1 case in 500 people, heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia is one of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kathleen Eddy, BSc, January/February 2013
... and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examinations per 1000 people in British Columbia increased by approximately 50%.[ 1 ... and 2007 the number of CT and MRI examinations per 1000 people in BC increased by approximately 50%, a finding that ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jean-François Kozak, PhD, March 2013
Prior to the Second World War, highly dependent elderly people unable to live on their own received care through a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: J. Rajala MD, FRCPC, April 2013
... the effects of poverty and poor working conditions on people. He attended medical school at Western Reserve ... information on how much energy was actually expended while people performed various tasks, he began going to workplaces ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jiao Yang, MD, FRCPC, May 2013
... block.[ 4 ] As well as being more common among Japanese people and African Americans, CS is more common in young ...