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MDs To Be / BY: Ashini Dissanayake, BSc May 2025
... is recommended every 3 years, or HPV screening every 5 years, for people with a cervix who are aged 25 to 69, 37% ... to lower screening rates and increased mortality.[ 4,5 ] Community-based cancer screening events such as cultural ... have cancer in the family.”  Before the event, only 12.5% of pre-Pap survey participants strongly agreed that they ...
Original Research / BY: Amrish Joshi, MBBS, MSc Pal Med, LLM, CCFP (PC), FCFP, FRCPC June 2025
... cultural influences pervade through multiple generations.[ 5 ] Culture also influences how difficult news is processed ... there is minimal exposure to palliative care services.[ 5 ] In many South Asian cultures, maintaining harmony in the ... sometimes overriding individual patient autonomy.[ 4,5,7 ] In the West, decision making happens through ...
Original Research / BY: Emily Meagher, MPH June 2025
... debilitating symptoms coupled with functional impairment.[ 5,6 ] They experience great difficulty accessing consistent ...
Premise / BY: Catherine Joanne Binda, MD June 2025
... 1 ] These early documents were limited in scope, with 5 and 10 articles, respectively, and they did not define the ... of a child’s well-being remains controversial.[ 4,5 ] The UNCRC in Canada The Canadian government ratified the ...
Premise / BY: Davie Wong, MD, FRCPC June 2025
... now divulge what we’ve learned, and how to apply it.”[ 5 ] Dr Sax then wittily revealed the seven golden rules for choosing an antibiotic duration: Choose a multiple of 5 (fingers of the hand) or 7 (days of the week). Is it an ... After application of our multiples rule, this should be 5 or 7 days. Is it really mild, so much so that antibiotics ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Michael Joseph Lee, PhD June 2025
... cyanotoxins[ 3 ] or multiply rapidly, forming blooms[ 4,5 ] [ Figure 1 ] . Such blooms can cause hypoxic water ... 2000 known species of cyanobacteria, and less than 5% are recognized to produce cyanotoxins, which have ... Watch, where the public can submit photos of blooms.[ 5 , 12 ] Both programs indicate that blooms occur annually ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Eileen M. Wong, MD, CCFP, FCFP June 2025
... and extremity injuries, with low rates of helmet use[ 5,6 ] and drug/alcohol intoxication contributing to increased ...
Editorials / BY: Terri Aldred, MD June 2025
... of disenfranchisement due to marriage, for example;[ 5 ] however, they also introduced the second-generation ...
Letters / BY: Rita K. McCracken, MD, PhD, CCFP (COE), FCFP June 2025
... mortality to frame the significance of the findings.[ 5 ] We respectfully suggest caution here. While international ...
Letters / BY: Rebecca Z. Xu, MD June 2025
... practices across the world vary substantially.[ 5 ] Opioids, in excess of clinical need, increase the risk of ...