News, COVID-19 /
BY: Sam Morris
April 2021
... Benefits Trust Fund Plan, which can pay benefits after 17 weeks of continuous illness following a positive COVID-19 ...
MDs To Be /
BY: Caleb A.N. Roda, MD
April 2021
... for patients with CIEDs to ride in and or operate.[ 15-17 ] More recently, the magnetic fields generated during ...
Beyond Medicine /
BY: Vivian W.L. Tsang, MD, MGC
April 2021
... twentyfold increase in demand for naloxone [ Figure ].[ 15-17 ] A massive scale-up of the program occurred during the ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Giselle Hunt, BSc
May 2021
... loop between local estradiol production and inflammation.[ 17 ] There is a 5% to 8% increase in the risk of developing ... such as in early menarche or late menopause.[ 1 , 17 ] Historically, there has been a perception that ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Samantha Pawer, BSc
May 2021
... particularly among children and youth. Among 10- to 17-year-old Canadians, 2140 young people were hospitalized ... and Labrador, self-poisoning hospitalizations among 12- to 17-year-olds increased 2.7-fold.[ 3 ] Meanwhile, previous ... hospitalization data in BC from the 2009–10 to 2016–17 fiscal years were retrospectively described in terms of ...
MDs To Be /
BY: Raiya Suleman, BHSc
May 2021
... decades. As of 2018, individuals age 65 and older made up 17.4% of the Canadian population. Projections estimate that ... personalized care and intergenerational activities.[ 17 ] Similar housing schemes are seen worldwide. For example, ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Lise Leveille, MD, MHSc
June 2021
... use of orthopaedic resources and access to treatments.[ 17-19 ] Specific patient factors that contribute to delayed ... identified and had a mean age of 14.7 years (range 9–17) [ Table 1 ]. Fifty-five patients were female (66.3%). ...
BC Centre for Disease Control, COVID-19 /
BY: Hasina Samji, PhD, MSc
June 2021
... of BC individuals infected during the pandemic but only 17% (892 543) of the BC population. Young adults experienced ...
MDs To Be /
BY: Faizan Bhatia, MD
June 2021
... compared to those that were not shared on Twitter.[ 16 , 17 ] In contrast, another randomized study did not find that ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Catherine Zhou, MD, MSc
July/August 2021
... reduces the time to resolution of the obstruction[ 15 , 17 , 18 , 21 , 22 ] and reduces the need for surgery.[ 17 , 18 , 20 , 22-24 ] Furthermore, Gastrografin has been ... difference in time to surgery between the two groups (3.17 days versus 3.66 days; P = 0.688). This persisted after ...