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Beyond Medicine, COVID-19 / BY: Cheryl Young, MD, CCFP January/February 2022
... binding to the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 receptor,[ 4 ] the receptor required for SARS-CoV-2 to attach and enter ... numbers of ivermectin calls [ Figure 1 ]. Over the almost 4-year study period, 20 calls concerned exposures to ... COVID-19 related calls were from the exposed individual, 4 from a friend or relation, and 8 from a health care ...
Editorials / BY: Gail Knudson, MD, MEd, FRCPC January/February 2022
... .[ 1 ] The International Classification of Diseases-11 [ 4 ] heralded a significant move forward in the field of ... of maintaining or increasing access to health care.[ 4 ] Now that gender incongruence appears as a diagnostic ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marshall Dahl, MD, PhD, FRCPC January/February 2022
... by reduction of pituitary secretion of gonadotropins.[ 4 ] Progesterone is used in hormone therapy of cisgendered ... of 25 or 50 mg daily, risk of meningioma increased from 4.5 to 23.8 per 1 000 000 patient years compared to the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sahil Kumar, MSc January/February 2022
... following 18 months of feminizing hormone therapy.[ 3 , 4 ] Prosthetic implants are the mainstay for enhancing the ... hormones and the need for androgen-blocking medications.[ 4 ] Based on patient goals, orchiectomy can be completed ... of its attachment ligaments to create a phallus that is 4 to 6 cm long, and removal of the vagina. The labia majora ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ingrid Cosio, MD, CCFP January/February 2022
... including depression, HIV, and substance use.[ 1-4 ] They are also disproportionately affected by poverty, ... unemployment, homelessness, harassment, and violence.[ 2 , 4 ] Gender-diverse people report barriers to accessing health ... screening, which results in unaddressed health needs.[ 4-8 ] Barriers to care include the knowledge level and ...
Editorials / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC January/February 2022
... average age of a Canadian person was 26.7 at childbirth.[ 4 ] I am not sharing this data to criticize millennials; I am ... 2%. Canada’s fertility rate is at an all-time low at 1.4 children per childbearing person.[ 9 ] The media have ...
News January/February 2022
... their institutions under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license ( creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 ). Copyright for articles published prior to 2022 will ... of BC, the BCMJ ’s publisher/owner. The CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license allows anyone to copy and redistribute the ...
Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: David R. Richardson, MD January/February 2022
... it was like coming home in a way. I also volunteered for 4 years with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, granting terminally ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: A. Maria Chung, MDCM January/February 2022
... care, and death and dying may be very different.[ 3 , 4 ] Conflicting belief systems can lead to misunderstandings ...
Shared Care Committee / BY: Jiwei Li, MD March 2022
... and social community supports In a recorded webinar[ 4 ] hosted by Shared Care, Dr Park and geriatrician Dr ...