BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Abdullah Al Mamun, MBBS, MPH
March 2022
... therapy (DOT) was not evidence driven. Practice settled on 1 or more weeks, predicated on the incorrect belief that ... reduce the risk of relapse or of antibiotic resistance.[ 1 , 2 ] There is increasing evidence that shorter durations ... 5 days of nitrofurantoin, 3 days of cotrimoxazole, or 1 day of fosfomycin.[ 4 ] DOT for nitrofurantoin and other ...
Beyond Medicine /
BY: Heather S. Loblaw, CPA, CA
March 2022
... tax on hand) is created at a rate of 30.67% for each $1 of passive nonbusiness income earned. A tax refund is available to the company at a rate of 38.33 cents per $1 of taxable dividends paid, limited to the balance in the ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: barbara findlay, MA, LLB, QC
March 2022
... Competing interests None declared. Footnotes 1. The Age of Majority Act RSBC 1996 c 7 sets the age ... 1996 c 223. Section 17 provides the following: 17(1) In this section: “health care” means anything ... Researchers of transgender teen health found that 1 in 3 youth did not have an adult in their family that they ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Nicole J. Todd, MD, FRCSC
March 2022
... should be screened for and offered contraception.[ 1 ] Despite this, the reproductive needs of transgender, ... absence of bleeding equates to an absence of ovulation.[ 1 ] The physiology of impaired ovulation due to testosterone ... which makes it an inadequate marker of fertility.[ 1 ] Additionally, the dosages of testosterone used are meant ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Emily Wiesenthal, BA
March 2022
... in parenthood at similar rates as cisgender persons.[ 1 ] It is estimated that between 1% and 3% of the Canadian population identifies as ... and 40% to 54% of TGD people desire to be parents.[ 1 , 2 ] Overall, a small but important proportion of the ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Sean Duke, MSc, MD
April 2022
... events are infrequent and challenging to prepare for.[ 1 ] Anaphylaxis, a severe, life-threatening systemic ... States between 2008 and 2016, which corresponds to 0.1% of injection visits, while fatal anaphylaxis occurred in 1 per 9.1 million injection visits.[ 5 ] Medical clinic ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 /
BY: Rahana Harjee, MD, FRCSC
April 2022
... increased stress due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.[ 1 ] Higher stress levels can be associated with increased ... fresh transfer group than in the frozen transfer group (1.36 versus 1.54 [ P < 0.0001]), which is likely reflective of a temporal ...
Letters /
BY: Suzanne Montemuro, MD, CCFP
April 2022
... get the care they need when no one seems to care?”[ 1 ] Since Swain wrote this letter, three more clinics in ... than physician remuneration. Why do ophthalmologists make $1 000 000 per year and family physicians make $163 000 ...
Letters /
BY: Joanne Sinai, MD, MEd, FRCPC
April 2022
... presents gender-affirming care as evidence-based[ 1 ] and as the only appropriate model of care. This premise ... you to watch the Swedish Trans Train documentaries (part 1: https://youtu.be/sJGAoNbHYzk ). Canadian physicians should ... editorial: Gender-affirming care in British Columbia, Part 1,” “Gender-affirming primary care,” “Endocrine ...
Letters /
BY: Andrew Kotaska, MD
April 2022
... as is the maternal immune response to those organisms.[ 1 ] Amniocentesis during preterm labor frequently detects ...