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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 ...
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 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: James K. Lai, MD, CCFP, FCFP, April 2009
... to acknowledge the leadership and support of the following people, who all ensured the successful completion of this ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Gerry Greenstone, MD, May 2009
... the number of cases was already declining as a result of people leaving the area, Snow managed to reduce the number ... had numerous such organisms in their stools and healthy people did not. He described a “comma-shaped bacillus” ... But these factors are a gigantic challenge for millions of people living in pov­erty around the world. Thousands of ...
Back Page / BY: Maggie Watt, MD, CCFP, September 2009
... do. It’s easy to forget what a critical role we play in people’s lives and in their memories; it’s easy to forget ...
Back Page / BY: Graham C. Fraser, FRCS, FACS October 2009
... children, the smaller citizens of our society. Several people, upon hearing this, have said, “Oh dear, how awful. ... children are truthful, direct, and reliable historians and people, as well as seldom obese! They are trusting and ... incredible advances in diagnosis and treatment technology. People get better because of us and, on occasion, in spite of ...
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, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Andrade, MD, FRCPC, June 2008
... in many circumstances, they can be less effective with people who are not of Northern European heritage.  The ... disease, or stroke) there may be as many as 1.5 million people, or up to one-third of the BC population, who require ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Vikram R. Comondore, MD, December 2008
... should be differentiated from the pressured alertness of people who sleep little. Quantitative sleep loss can be due ...