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Obituaries / BY: Glenn A. Scheske, MD, FRCPC November 2019
... graduating in 1968. He completed his internship and 2 years of general internal medicine at St. Paul’s Hospital ...
Obituaries / BY: Wayne Niou, MD November 2019
... and colleagues. She also leaves behind her husband of 2 years, her son, and her mother Lei Ut Tak. We miss you ...
News November 2019
... a 1.5-fold increased risk for incident depression and a 1.2-fold increased risk for incident anxiety. While ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) November 2019
... the elderly and by those with certain medical conditions.[ 2 ] In persons over 65, falls rank first among causes of ... with an estimated 20% of these attributable to stair use.[ 2 , 3 ] These figures may underestimate the burden of ... to the risk of traumatic brain injury or hip fracture.[ 2 ] Risky behavior There are several high-risk behaviors that ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brenda Hefford, MD November 2019
... health as an additional component of the triple aim[ 2 ] (the GPSC’s version of which identifies the priority of ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: David M. Patrick, MD, FRCPC, MHSc November 2019
... of patients are labeled with a penicillin allergy and 2% with a cephalosporin allergy. Yet, among patients with a reported penicillin allergy, only 5% to 8% of adults and 2% of children have a positive penicillin skin test.[ 1-3 ] ... of questions possibly aided by a flowchart (e.g., Figure 2 ). What were the symptoms that led to the diagnosis of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Brett Baumann, MD November 2019
... production of serum amyloid A, an acute phase reactant.[ 2 ] Pulmonary amyloidosis is a localized form of amyloid ... An X-ray image [ Figure 1 ] and CT images [ Figure 2 ] showed a cystic consolidation in the right upper lobe ... The patient’s past medical history was notable for type 2 diabetes mellitus and auto­immune hepatitis with ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC December 2019
... breast cancer risk for more than a decade after use.”[ 2-4 ] These headlines might entice readers, but they ... reads, “double the risk of dying” (a relative risk of 2.0) might actually be referring to an absolute risk of 1% going up to 2%. In this UK study, the relative risk conveys how often the ...
Premise / BY: Mark Elliott, MD, FRCPC December 2019
... soon be routine for treating opioid addiction,[ 1 ] PTSD,[ 2 ] and refractory depression,[ 3 ] as well for use in ...
Specialist Services Committee / BY: Sam Bugis, MD December 2019
... cost-effective patient care. But for the past 2 decades—as BC’s health authorities were regionalized ...