Search

MDs To Be / BY: Jenny Ko, March 2010
... about achievable quality of life experienced by people living in the community with mech­anical ... permissible.  Worst of all, legalized euthanasia puts people who are suffering and vulnerable at risk, and no legal ...
MDs To Be / BY: A. Daniel Malebranche, MSc, MD, September 2010
... back to the United States, where more than 40 million people—more than Canada’s entire population—do not have ... supported access to health care services, I think of the people with whom I enjoyed that holiday dinner. Had they ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ali Zentner, MD, FRCPC, Diplomate ABOM April 2010
... emphasize the need to improve control of hypertension in people with diabetes. Sixty- five percent of diabetic deaths ... reduction in blood pressure (below 130/80 mm Hg) in people with diabetes leads to significant reductions in ... initial therapy with two antihypertensive drugs for people with diabetes and blood pressure above 150/90 mm Hg.  ...
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 ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2009
... thing you could do academically. I always wanted to help people, but I can’t really say I had a deep sense of what ... my intellectual and academic longings, I enjoyed the people, and I thought dealing with medical issues would be a nice area to interact with people.  I’ve always liked solving problems, and also I ...
MDs To Be / BY: Gavin Tansley, March 2009
... school and nearly everyone put up a hand. I think some people might have excitedly raised two. He concluded his ... awestruck as I listened to the most educated and talented people I had ever met talk to us with sincere respect. We ...
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 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Borys Flak, MD, FRCPC, May 2008
... in­creases significantly after age 50.  More than 700 people die of CRC annually in BC alone, each losing an ...