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Clinical Articles /
BY: Gibong Lee, BSc(Pharm), MD,
July/August 2012
... is common in North America, with an estimated 2 million people identified as current (past month) users.[ 1 ] ...
Letters /
BY: Jennifer Lajoie, MD,
June 2012
... merit. In general, I tend to support the opinions of people who I feel are elected to represent us and know much ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Janusz Kaczorowski, PhD,
October 2012
... 0.86–0.97, P = .002) or 3.02 fewer admissions per 1000 people 65 years and older.[ 18 ] These results suggest that ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Philippa Hawley, FRCPC
July/August 2012
... the biggest barrier to good pain management for the many people living and dying with chronic pain. Palliative care ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS
January/February 2012
... number of general surgeons in Canada is 5.0 per 100 000 people.[ 1 ] In BC we currently have 4.0 general surgeons for every 100 000 people and the number has been as low as 3.3 in 2002.[ 1 ] The United States has 7.1 general surgeons per 100 000 people, which is much closer to the ideal number needed to ...
Letters /
BY: L. Eustace, MD,
June 2012
... but bears repeating that First Nations, Metis, and Inuit people in Canada suffer disproportionately from chronic ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Sandra Sirrs, MD, FRCPC,
May 2011
... manifestations (or no manifestations at all) in different people. Epidemiology of mitochondrial diseases Primary ... disorders of the respiratory chain affect up to 1 in 5000 people and are much more common than previously realized.[ 4 ... disease is actually common and affects hundreds of people in British Columbia, including some members of ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Darcy Cox, PsyD, RPsych, ABPP,
October 2011
... prevalence of these conditions increases significantly as people age.[ 11 ] Performance on specific types of ...
Letters /
BY: Dorothy M. Goresky, MD
May 2011
... own 12-bed hospitals. There we met and treated the local people and saw life first-hand. Four years later we headed ... entered psychiatry. It was he who recognized that several people there were not mentally ill but had treatable organic ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Aaron Talsky, MD,
January/February 2011
... war zone injury.[ 2 ] In the US, approximately 2 million people will sustain a TBI each year, one-quarter of whom will ...