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Clinical Articles / BY: Chris A. Speropoulos, BSc March 2001
... of current information about assistive technology. People with disabilities often face daunting problems with ...
Clinical Articles / BY: R.C. Offer, MD, FRCPC, FACR October 2001
... value for osteoporotic fractures, there are many people who have good bone mass despite multiple risk factors, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Christopher Bozek MD, FRCPC May 2001
 Introduction Parkinson's disease (PD) affects people of all ages. Although 20% may be diagnosed under the ... decades. With the advent of levodopa therapy 30 years ago, people now live with this disease for 20 to 30 years. As a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Stuart Fine, MB, FRCPC June 2001
... long-term stimulant medication efficacy for young people with ADHD may be poor adherence to taking the ...
Clinical Articles November 2001
... antibiotics such as ciprofloxacin and doxycycline to treat people exposed to biologic agents like anthrax, and provide ... with a credible threat, then this is a police matter and people should contact police through 911. If police and the ... preventive measures are currently recommended. People should not go to the hospital or doctor unless they ...
Clinical Articles / BY: A. Jon Stoessl, MD, FRCPC May 2001
... rhythmic rest tremor characteristic of PD, do not occur in people with an intact dopamine system despite significant ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Steve Adilman, MD November 2000
... improve access to medical services for urban First Nations people. It is a non-profit, provincially funded health centre ... elderly men, immigrants, troubled youth, and Aboriginal people. The community is experiencing epidemics of HIV/AIDS, ... social work, and advocacy for hundreds of HIV-positive people. Individuals are encouraged to attend the drop-in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: David Baxter June 2000
... practice is the continual increase in the percentage of people who live to reach “old age”: over the past ... groups has been dramatic. There were 8329 fewer deaths of people under the age of 65 in Canada in 1998 than there were ... the population gets older since, effectively, 2 older people contribute 1.6 younger people to the population. Below ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP November 2000
... directory data, that communities with fewer than 7000 people have the lowest year-to-year physician retention rates ... studied were communities that had fewer than 30,000 people and had either a hospital or diagnostic-and-treatment ... this reflects the fact that looking after Aboriginal people is more stressful than looking after non-native ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC June 2000
... bites from rabid dogs. Each year, approximately 4 million people require rabies post-exposure prophylaxis.[ 1,2 ]  The ...