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Beyond Medicine, COVID-19 / BY: Cheryl Young, MD, CCFP January/February 2022
... as household pets, most commonly for heartworm and mites.[ 2 ] As the COVID-19 pandemic drags on, a variety of existing ... in preventing and treating infection with SARS-CoV-2. When it was demonstrated early in the pandemic that, in vitro, high doses of ivermectin suppressed SARS-CoV-2 replication in a primate cell line,[ 3 ] numerous clinical ...
Editorials / BY: Gail Knudson, MD, MEd, FRCPC January/February 2022
... pathology toward gender-affirming practice. Over the last 2 decades, the field has also moved from a binary model of ... Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming People-7 [ 2 ] diagnoses are based on the distress of body/mind ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marshall Dahl, MD, PhD, FRCPC January/February 2022
... because of lower potential of venous thromboembolism.[ 2 ] Transdermal estradiol may have a better safety profile ... years, tobacco use, body mass index greater than 27 kg/m 2 , and postoperative state. Initial history should also ... serum levels than injected testosterone [ Table 2 ].[ 6 ] Treatment of youth Medical treatment for ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sahil Kumar, MSc January/February 2022
... offer upper body surgery, orchiectomy, and hysterectomy.[ 2 ] In BC, gender-affirming surgical care largely follows the ... pelvic pain, and postoperative voiding dysfunction.[ 2 , 6 ] Penile inversion vaginoplasty completed in BC is ... when constructing the external genital structures.[ 2 , 5 ] This procedure may be preferred in medically complex ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ingrid Cosio, MD, CCFP January/February 2022
... unemployment, homelessness, harassment, and violence.[ 2 , 4 ] Gender-diverse people report barriers to accessing ... can indicate that gender-diverse people are welcome [ Box 2 ]. Intake forms and electronic medical records can also be ...
Letters / BY: Mark Elliott, MD, FRCPC January/February 2022
... a good percentage of the cited articles are self-cited.[ 2 ] Would medicine be just as effective, and not as ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC January/February 2022
... 20s to the majority giving birth in their in their 30s.[ 2 ] To demonstrate just how much we’ve changed, consider ... the odds of a live birth at age 45 are less than 2%. Canada’s fertility rate is at an all-time low at 1.4 ... published in December 2021 made headlines for the 19.2% of respondents who “would have fewer children or later ...
News January/February 2022
... access to the resource through a health authority. Within 2 weeks, they will receive an email with details on how to ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: A. Maria Chung, MDCM January/February 2022
... for acute care facilities and private doctors’ offices.[ 2 ] Expanding access to translation services for patients in ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Celina Dunn, MD, CCFP, CIME January/February 2022
... WorkSafeBC practitioners/consultants. Topics from the past 2 years are provided in the Box . We are currently planning ... Zeindler, MD, CCFP, FCFP) Seminar topics from the past 2 years Chronic pain: Interventional treatments for spinal ...