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Clinical Articles / BY: Richard Beever, MD June 2006
... and mortality. It is estimated that more than 700 million people become ill each year from mosquito-transmitted disease, and that 3 million people die from malaria, including one child every 30 ...  In response, numerous measures have been used to protect people from mosquitoes. On an international level, attempts ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hin Hin Ko, MD June 2006
The global health of Aboriginal people is suboptimal when compared with the health of the ... disease among American Indian (AI) and Alaska Native (AN) people were more than twice those of other racial groups. [2] ... that indications for liver transplantation in Aboriginal people differed significantly from those of the overall liver ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP July/August 2006
... quality of life scores. Mean scores for Aboriginal people were lower/poorer than mean scores for non-Aboriginal people in all the quality of life questions. Mean scores for ... of British Columbia. According to the 2001 census, 2285 people live in the Bella Coola Valley, and 46% of these ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael Humer, MD, FRCSC, July/August 2006
... Blumel, cartographer, Province of BC, 22 September 2005). People living in the expanse of BC beyond the well-populated ... specialty and subspecialty medical care. [1,2] One million people live within the jurisdictions of the Interior Health ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jay Draper July/August 2006
... up and asked those assembled, “Why are there so few people here?” At that point, there were about 150 members ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Philip Hassen, MPH, FCC, HSE, September 2006
... fundamental to improving patient safety. Wherever he goes, people (especially health care professionals) affirm their ... institute a reality. In the long term, it is going to take people in every part of the health system to build a stronger ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Dr J. Mark Ansermino, FFA, MMed, MSc, FRCPC September 2006
... to develop solutions that meet the needs and desires of people in all walks of life. These organizations have ... what seemed impossible by making the complex systems people need in order to get on with their lives into ... to realize that technology cannot act independently of people to improve patient safety. There is little doubt that ...
Premise / BY: James D. Warren, MD October 2006
... within the temple precincts. Pausanias says, “Neither do people die in the enclosure nor do they give birth.” Only ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sami Youakim, MD, MSc, FRCP October 2006
... very rapid growth in wine production and the number of people employed. Wine industry workers in BC face specific ... The author would like to thank the following people at WorkSafeBC: Dr Celina Dunn for the support provided ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Cristina M. Aydin, BSc, October 2006
... regimens, our results indicate that in the majority of people (84%) who are prescribed TZD medications, the therapy ...