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Letters / BY: Andrew Farquhar, MD March 2003
... and lipids to CDA recommended goals of <130/80 and LDL <2.5 respectively (for which, incidentally, we have very ... tools (which render normoglycemia virtually impossible). [2-5] This is not to diminish the importance of efforts at ... therapy alone as the pharmacological treatment of type 2 diabetes.” [1] According to Berger, physicians providing ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Evan Wood, MD, PhD, ABIM, FRCPC April 2003
... behaviors that put them at risk of disease and death. [1,2]  The health of drug users is further complicated by ... the leading causes of death in many large US cities. [2,5]  In Baltimore, for example, overdose deaths increased ... district increased from $6.7 million in 1995 to $11.2 million in 2001, the drug problem has not improved, and the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Timothy K.S. Christie, PhD April 2003
... duty to warn, but the two are fundamentally different. [1,2]  The duty to warn occurs when the health care ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Michael L. Rekart, MD, DTM&H, MHSc April 2003
... 6 weeks after most infections but 6 months in rare cases), 2 weeks for the test result, and a positive test means HIV ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Daniel Lin, BSc May 2003
... diagnostic tool in psychiatry. Indeed, Schreiber [2]  states that “the psychiatric interview is the ... also reviewed for summaries of the psychiatric interview [2,3,8]  and a standard outline was extracted based on these ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Terence W. Anderson BM, BCh, FRCPC, PhD May 2003
... on Dorothy’s life expectancy: one has suggested 4.2 years; the other 1.8 years. Each estimate was based on a ... cord injury at 5-year intervals between ages 5 and 80. [2]  The top line of  Figure 1  shows the proportional (or ... 30 years, with a drop of only 6% by age 50 (to 74%; 21.2 years vs the normal figure of 28.6 years). The rate of ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: M. Fyfe, MD, MSc May 2003
... Services. • Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF): 1 cc to 2 cc should be collected in each of two tubes without any ...
Letters / BY: M.M. Moran, MB May 2003
... a specialist practising in Prince George for the last 81/2 years, my department has been fully staffed for 3 months in ...
Letters / BY: Ralph Jones, MD May 2003
... to find Dr Bass’s exhortation on page 86 [BCMJ 2003;45(2):86]. I hope new and enthusiastic graduates don’t follow ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Stuart Johnston, MD May 2003
... treatment, and monitoring • Delivering medical services [2,3] Telehealth is a technology that, theoretically, can make ... care professionals, and the entire health care system. [2] Clinical applications of telehealth technology remain more ... Lake. That telehealth line has been in place for at least 2 years. Discussions with the emergency room physician who ...