Clinical Articles /
BY: E. Jane Garland, MD, FRCPC
November 2002
... The morbid risk by the end of the teen years is now 20%. [2] However, half of major depressive episodes in community ... populations of teens will have spontaneously resolved by 2 months. [1] Nevertheless, more brief depressions may ... in adults, with at least 50% recurrence within the next 2 years and 75% within 5 years. Table 2 shows established ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Agnes To, MD
November 2002
... for the Treatment of Depressive Disorders for specialists [2-8] (guidelines available at www.canmat.org ). We now ... “Treatment of depression in primary care—Part 2: Principles of maintenance treatment,” are organized in ... of treatment, and monitoring of response. In Part 2 , we continue with principles of maintenance treatment of ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Agnes To, MD
November 2002
... the Treatment of Depressive Disorders for psychiatrists [2-8] (guidelines available at www.canmat.org ). We now ... article, “Treatment of depression in primary care—Part 2: Principles of maintenance treatment,” and its companion ... of treatment, and monitoring of response. In Part 2, we continue with principles of maintenance treatment of ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Marcos Gobrial, MD, CCFP
December 2002
... road; the closest tertiary-care centre is in Vancouver, a 2-hour flight. The hospital in this community is one of the ... serve an estimated clinic population of 2750 people. [2] Each year these physicians see more than 8000 patients ... that has a physician-staffed health facility ( Table 2 ). The Cariboo region is known to be among the unhealthiest ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Chris Whittington, MB BS, MBA, FCFP, FACRRM
December 2002
... 200 to 1 in 400 in people of northern European ancestry. [2,3] An even higher prevalence likely occurs in Ireland and ... accounts for 80% to 100% of those with clinical HHC. [2,4,5] Among those of European ancestry (including both ... compound heterozygotes develop clinical symptoms of HHC. [2,15,16] The H63D mutation is not as penetrant as the C282Y ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Peter L. Munk, MDCM, FRCPC, FSIR, FFRRCSI(Hon)
December 2002
... have osteoporotic compression fractures have had at least 2 weeks to 4 weeks of conservative therapy without any ... an anesthetist in attendance. Generous infiltration with 2% lidocaine (Xylocaine) in the soft tissues adjacent to the ... required to achieve satisfactory clinical results (2 mL to 7 mL). [15-17] In many instances a single injection ...
Letters /
BY: Eugene Leduc, MD
December 2002
... permits. The BCMJ published my reasoned response [2] to this, but I was not aware until recently that the ...
Premise /
BY: William A. Falk, MD, FCFPC, FRCGP
December 2002
... and equipment (20%); and other health services (2%). • Of all families with expenditures, 70% spent less ... to occupation. Physicians’ care was received by 37.2% of the low-income group, 43.9% of the medium-income group, and 45.2% of the high-income group. However, hospital admission ...