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Clinical Articles / BY: H. Grant Stiver MD, FRCPC January/February 2000
... cause of death from any event in the United States.[ 1 ] Annual immunization with inactivated influenza vaccine ... antiviral agents for influenza are listed on  Table 1 . There are two classes of agents. Most physicians will be ... in Canada. Strategies for its use in prevention include: 1. Institute the agent for those who cannot or will not ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC January/February 2000
... can be very high, reaching up to 60% to 70% of residents[ 1 , 2 ] with case fatality rates as high as 30%.[ 3 ] ... of institutionalized people should typically begin 1 November, while staff, whose protection lasts 6 months or ... to 4 days but cough, malaise, and lethargy may persist for 1 to 2 weeks after the fever has resolved.[ 7 ] For the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Leila Srour, MD January/February 2000
... and cope with selective immunologic and drug pressures.[ 1 , 2 ] Influenza viruses have unique genomic properties, ... with no pre-existing immunity can lead to a pandemic.[ 1 ] Yearly influenza vaccination with current circulating ... residents were vaccinated with influenza vaccine and only 1% with pneumococcal vaccine.[ 4 ] In BC, influenza vaccine ...
Editorials / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC January/February 2000
... in six Canadians is infected with influenza, resulting in 1.5 million work days lost and 50,000 hospitalizations. More ... preventing mortality due to influenza in this age group.[ 1 ]    Many of the measures proven to combat influenza are ... that is 70% to 90% effective in preventing influenza A.[ 1 ] It was first licensed for this purpose in Canada in 1979. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Gordean Bjornson, MBA March 2000
... children the infection rate was about 30% each year.[ 1,2 ] The complications of influenza generally result from ... to complications by underlying conditions ( see Table 1 ). Despite this, it is the most poorly utilized vaccine in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC March 2000
... health problems be vaccinated yearly against influenza.[ 1 ] Canada, along with at least 10 other developed countries, ... also recommends immunization for health-care workers.[ 1 , 2 ] A distinct recommendation to health-care workers has ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Alex Agranovich, MD, FRCPC April 2000
... survival were achieved at Princess Margaret Hospital.[ 1 ] One important observation was the slow pace of response ... is more convenient for patients and more cost effective (1 week of treatment). A number of randomized studies have ... Preoperative radiotherapy (five treatments over 1 week) followed by radical surgery 2 weeks later was ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Iain G.M. Cleator, MB, CHB, FRCSC, FRCSE, FRCS, FACS April 2000
... takes at least 6 years for this transformation to occur.[ 1,2 ]  Under current accepted standards of screening and ... now three prospective randomized studies providing level 1 evidence (i.e., evidence derived from multiple mature ... and methodology, which have been summarized in  Table 1 . Any provincial screening program will be extremely ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Greg Hislop, MD April 2000
... 9% of new invasive cancer diagnosed worldwide.[ 1 ] In British Columbia, incidence rates for CRC are among ... mortality trends in BC At present in BC, one of 17 men and 1 of 19 women can be expected to develop CRC in their lifetime, and 1 of 47 men and 1 of 53 women will die from it. It is ...
Editorials / BY: G.I. McGregor, MD, FRCSC, FACS April 2000
... BC Cancer Agency,Vancouver Centre     Editorials Part 1—Colorectal cancer: Current practices and future ...