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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: James McKinney, MD, MSc, April 2016
... Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study[ 4 ] of 13 344 healthy people. The subjects included in the study had no personal ... due to cerebrovascular diseases.[ 17 ] Physically inactive people have a significantly elevated stroke risk (RR 1.60).[ ... risk of developing cancer among physically inactive people.[ 4,20 ] In the NHANES I survey, physical inactivity ...
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 ...
Obituaries / BY: Brad Fritz, MD January/February 2015
... of 1980–1981. Mr Trevino was one of the three people interviewed by the Negotiating Committee of the day, ... a post in which he represented the interests of the people of the province and the doctors of BC with great ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Elspeth M. McDougall, MD, FRCSC, MHPE, December 2015
... content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people and especially from the online community.”[ 15 ] ...
Proust for Physicians / BY: Kenneth Fung, MD, June 2015
... Which talent would you most like to have?   To read people’s minds. What do you consider your greatest ...
Obituaries / BY: Robert N. Meek, MD, January/February 2015
... in Nanaimo dedicated to the care of the First Nations people, for whom he held a lifelong appreciation and ... and took genuine pleasure in the lives of ordinary people. He and Mary had a large family and always seemed to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Benjamin Matthew, MHSc, MD, July/August 2015
Backgound An estimated 1.7 billion people worldwide are affected by obesity (BMI greater than 30 ... ABSTRACT   Background:  An estimated 1.7 billion people worldwide are affected by obesity-related ...
Proust for Physicians / BY: Réka Gustafson, MD, MSc, MHSc, FRCPC January/February 2015
... for a couple of days. On what occasion do you lie? When people ask me about my height. Which words or phrases do you ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: J. Pawlovich, MD July/August 2015
... drive and spirit embodied with a love of the land and people around him propelled the son of Polish and Russian ... islands in the sun. His connectedness with Hawaii and its people grew and remains strong to this day. After completing ... community. Their relationship with Spirt River and the people blossomed over the 7 years JP was there. It was a ...