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Clinical Articles / BY: Megan Isaac-Renton, BSc, July/August 2010
... hunters, trappers, and those who handle ill wild animals. People working with sheep have been reported to be at high ... infected animal.  Infection can be prevented by educating people at high risk (animal handlers, trappers, and farmers ... and to insect vectors that harbor disease) and encouraging people to avoid exposure to insects in endemic areas. Because ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Margot Davis, MD, September 2010
... group.  It provides a risk assessment model for British people of In­dian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, black Caribbean, ... A study by the Framingham group demonstrated that among people free of cardiovascular disease at age 50, the lifetime ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Paul K.B. Dagg, MD, FRCPC, January/February 2010
... that we encounter on a regular basis in transporting people with psychiatric illness within the province of BC ... care in our PICU, adult, and geriatric programs for people from throughout the northern and southern interiors of ... of our providing tertiary services we provide care for people who cannot be cared for in general hospitals in their ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Erica Frank, MD, September 2010
... environment, the provincial culture, and the types of people who choose to live in BC.  If such factors were ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mira Keyes, MD, FRCPC March 2010
... after the procedure. The radiation exposure to other people is very low; for example, the total dose of radiation ...
Back Page / BY: Sterling Haynes, MD March 2010
... skull.  Trephination (trepanning) was known by the native people of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and was used extensively ... Burr holes have been found in the skulls of First Nations people.  Bob Hayes, a high school teacher, gave a talk ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ali Zentner, MD, FRCPC, Diplomate ABOM April 2010
... emphasize the need to improve control of hypertension in people with diabetes. Sixty- five percent of diabetic deaths ... reduction in blood pressure (below 130/80 mm Hg) in people with diabetes leads to significant reductions in ... initial therapy with two antihypertensive drugs for people with diabetes and blood pressure above 150/90 mm Hg.  ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mazhar Haque, MBBS, FRACP, May 2010
... cirrhosis (PBC), among British Columbia’s First Nations people.[ 26 ] Patients with autoimmune liver disease may have ...
Back Page / BY: Graham C. Fraser, FRCS, FACS December 2009
... fussy or irritable.” But that would be wrong. For these people are, or were, highly intelligent business and professional people who functioned at a very high level. The onset of ... Although only a friend or acquaintance to these people, I have found these experiences profoundly disturbing, ...