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Clinical Articles / BY: Raheesa Jina, BSc, MM October 2022
... and Alternative Medicine, Nutrition, and Lifestyle[ 2 ] B.    Menopause and Genitourinary Health[ 3 ] C.   ... providers can use the citations in the reference list [ 2-8 ] to inquire further at their own libraries.[ * ] This ... alternative medicines, and lifestyle measures. Part 2 focuses on guidelines E and F: the effect of hormone ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Raheesa Jina, BSc, MM October 2022
... disease, and premature ovarian insufficiency.[ 1 , 2 ] Hormone therapy and breast cancer After nonmelanoma skin ... carry only modest relative breast cancer risks of 1.2 to 1.3. Unmodifiable factors such as genetic predisposition ... factors such as diabetes mellitus (odds ratio [OR] = 2.37), hypertension (OR = 1.91), abdominal obesity (OR = ...
Letters / BY: Joanne Sinai, MD, MEd, FRCPC October 2022
... processes. In their guest editorial for Part 2 of the Gender-affirming care in BC series, Dr Knudson, Dr ... the UK’s Cass Review outlines some of these concerns.[ 2 ] Related articles also fail to address the sharp rise in ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC October 2022
... under the Criminal Code.[ 1 ] It was not until 1969[ 2 ] that the government decriminalized contraception and ... a landmark decision for reproductive rights for women.”[ 2 ] However, the battle for access to a safe abortion did not ...
Editorials / BY: Yvonne Sin, MD October 2022
... as well as the legally allowed gestational limit.[ 2 ] Clinics that provide abortion services do not advertise ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Troy Grennan, MD, DTM&H, MSc, FRCPC October 2022
... among women and children, these cases have been rare.[2] For individuals outside of the current risk groups, other ... use a different swab for different anatomic areas. Swab 2–3 lesions per area, unroof vesicles, and/or vigorously ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Katharine McKeen, MD, MBA, FCFP October 2022
... is also associated with low muscle quantity and quality.[ 2 ] This loss of muscle mass and strength is involuntary, age ... strength), with more emphasis on loss of muscle strength.[ 2 ] Pathological changes in this important metabolically ... risk and need for long-term care placement.[ 2 ] Recognition of sarcopenia and sarcopenic obesity by ...
Beyond Medicine, COVID-19 / BY: Jocelyn Y. Wong October 2022
... propagated that antibodies that recognize the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein could cross-react with placental proteins ... fear of placental damage with COVID-19 vaccination.[ 2 ] Since then, the original blog post has been taken down, ... in The Lancet followed 65 patients positive for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies and 195 matched patients negative for SARS-CoV-2 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Emily Ertel, MD November 2022
... asymptomatic. The risk of developing symptoms is 1.0% to 2.3% per year.[ 1 ] The most frequent symptom is biliary ... postoperative ERCP in clearing stones is 97% to 100%.[ 1 , 2 ] Another concern is that retained stones may increase bile ... 58 patients met the inclusion criteria [ Figure 2 ]. Twenty-one patients (36.2%) had CF; 37 (63.8%) had EF. ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: O. Maheshwari, MD November 2022
... and one in two Canadians affected by the age of 40 years.[ 2 ] In British Columbia one in four people experience a ... 1 week of in-person groups being canceled, and within 2 months, physicians were providing the service for ... 2019, and more groups were offered each year [ Figures 2 to 4 ]. Most patients were female (70.1%), and the average ...