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Letters / BY: Andrew Farquhar, MD June 2006
... also US, European, and UK guidelines to all recommend that people with type 2 diabetes be treated as if they already ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP June 2006
... impairment—is seen in 8% to 10% of people over age 65 and 35% to 40% of people over age 85. Symptoms of cognitive impairment are hard ... that plague residents. It aims to create communities where people can live full and meaningful lives. It is a call to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Amy C. MacArthur, MHSc June 2006
... using a 2-tailed test with 5% alpha. Results Twenty-three people responded to the survey, for an overall response rate ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Richard Beever, MD June 2006
... and mortality. It is estimated that more than 700 million people become ill each year from mosquito-transmitted disease, and that 3 million people die from malaria, including one child every 30 ...  In response, numerous measures have been used to protect people from mosquitoes. On an international level, attempts ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hin Hin Ko, MD June 2006
The global health of Aboriginal people is suboptimal when compared with the health of the ... disease among American Indian (AI) and Alaska Native (AN) people were more than twice those of other racial groups. [2] ... that indications for liver transplantation in Aboriginal people differed significantly from those of the overall liver ...
President's Comment / BY: Margaret MacDiarmid, MD, July/August 2006
... mom and dad do?” He answered, “They help to make the people feel better.” Sadly, it has gotten much more difficult for me to help to make the people feel better in my practice, and that is true for many ...
Letters / BY: Richard Loomer, MD, July/August 2006
... personnel and addressing the unique health needs of people in the North. You comment that “…[Prince George ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD July/August 2006
... particularly noticeable in the speech characteristics of people in North America, where many young people are losing the unique regional speech patterns of ... it really doesn’t matter where you go today, most young people not only sound the same, they also look the same. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP July/August 2006
... quality of life scores. Mean scores for Aboriginal people were lower/poorer than mean scores for non-Aboriginal people in all the quality of life questions. Mean scores for ... of British Columbia. According to the 2001 census, 2285 people live in the Bella Coola Valley, and 46% of these ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael Humer, MD, FRCSC, July/August 2006
... Blumel, cartographer, Province of BC, 22 September 2005). People living in the expanse of BC beyond the well-populated ... specialty and subspecialty medical care. [1,2] One million people live within the jurisdictions of the Interior Health ...