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News January/February 2014
... about who is responsible for the care of Aboriginal people. The report says that little attention has been paid ... health care for Aboriginal seniors and other Aboriginal people, citing the transfer of health authority to the new ...
News October 2014
The quality of health care that people receive may be as important as controlling the risk ... Rural Epidemiologic (PURE) study tracked more than 156 000 people in 17 countries and revealed that low-income countries, where people have the lowest risk factors for cardiovascular ...
News June 2014
... distracted by salient but irrelevant information when people want to focus on a particular item or task. Dr John ... 2009. But, until now, little was known about how it helps people ignore visual distractions. Authors of the study ... are now turning their attention to understanding how people deal with distraction, and looking at when and why ...
News January/February 2014
Approximately 7000 people living in BC have an inherited heart rhythm condition, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kasandra Harriman, MD, CCFP, November 2014
... morbidity and mortality,[ 1 ] especially among elderly people, who are more likely to have comorbid conditions and ... of medication effects in older patients. Elderly people living in residential care facilities are at ...
News July/August 2014
... has found that synapses that are too strong can hinder people’s capacity to learn new things by affecting the ...
News January/February 2014
... a condition that severely limits the vision of about 5000 people in North America. The development of this potential ...
News November 2014
... practice the aims and ideals of our profession. They are people who exemplify the words of the CMA Coat of Arms:  ... contributions to medicine or to the welfare of the people of British Columbia or Canada. For more information, ...
Premise / BY: W.D. Robertson, MB, BChir, FRCPC July/August 2014
... preventive care and therapeutic work is designed to enable people to live fulfilling lives for longer. This practice ... in Canadian hospitals, this one was about 50% occupied by people awaiting placement in long-term care facilities. The prospect of becoming one of those people horrified her. As she put it, “that is not living, ...
Premise / BY: Siavash Jafari, MD, MHSc, FRCPC March 2014
... death in Ontario in 2004 was estimated at 27.2 per million people, which is more than 3 times that of HIV (9 per ...