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Clinical Articles / BY: Jennifer Smith, BFA January/February 2016
... public health and has reported that more than 1.2 million people are fatally injured every year.[ 1 ] Although Canada ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ivana Jakovljevic, MD October 2016
... by 25% in British Columbia since 2008. Over 97 000 people used the food bank last year in BC, with 31% of users ... specific questions for families with children, seniors, people with disabilities, and First Nations patients living ...
President's Comment / BY: Alan Ruddiman, MBBCh, Dip PEMP, FRRMS December 2016
... caregivers provide an estimated 70% to 75% of care to people receiving home care. That translates to roughly 8 ... on any given day. In BC there are approximately 1 million people filling this role, most of whom are caring for a ... family caregivers and, in turn, negatively impacting the people they care for and generating additional pressures on ...
President's Comment / BY: Charles Webb, MBChB January/February 2016
... by physicians on the front lines—work that not enough people know about. In BC physicians are emerging as leaders ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Bakul Dalal, MD, July/August 2016
... and at a rate of approximately 5 to 10 cases per million people.[ 1 ] Patients with PNH lack a protein called ... and at a rate of approximately 5 to 10 cases per million people. Now that a highly effective treatment is available ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael W. Luong, MD, FRCPC, March 2016
... vagal tone followed by increased sympathetic tone. As people age, beta-receptor responsiveness decreases, leading ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jaclyn R. Farquhar, MD July/August 2016
... one in four adult Canadians, or about 6.3 million people, were obese. Since 2003, the proportion of obese ... been well quantified is the care gap that can occur when people with an illness need but do not receive treatment.[ 33 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ahmad Abdullah, MD, April 2016
... North American incidence is 8 to 12.6 cases per 100 000 people.[ 4 ] To our knowledge, data are not currently ...
President's Comment / BY: Alan Ruddiman, MBBCh, Dip PEMP, FRRMS June 2016
... careers existed: medicine, law, and the clergy. The people whom each of these professions served looked for ... legitimate leadership, and a strong sense of hope. The people expected outstanding service, the safety of trusted ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael W. Luong, MD, FRCPC, April 2016
... cardiomyopathy was the most common cause of SCD in young people in the Veneto region of Italy.[ 1 ] This finding, ... lead to ventricular fibrillation and is seen commonly in people of Southeast Asian ancestry. In European studies of ...