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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Bruce Gamage, RN, CIC September 2004
... Eva Thomas (604 875-2345) or the VIRAP information line at 1 888 711-7770. Acknowledgments  The authors wish to thank ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD September 2004
... all enjoyed Canada Day. What a great country!  —JAW  1 July 2004 Editorials Fates and musings ...
Editorials / BY: Howard Feldman, MD, FRCPC September 2004
... the neurofibrillary tangles and senile neuritic plaques [1]  now recognized as characteristic of Alzheimer disease ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Edna Durbach, Ed.D October 2004
... consistently across the hospital. Responsibilities 1. Identify and address barriers to open access to hospital ... the hospital, for all programs and departments, on 1 July 2002. Implementating the policy The new policy was ... to review the health record, the staff member will: 1. Verify the identity of the person making the request. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Charmaine Kim-Sing, MD, ChB, FRCPC October 2004
... will be diagnosed and 640 women will die of this disease. [1] There is much fear and anxiety regarding breast cancer ... Breast cancer is rare in men and accounts for less than 1% of all cancers in men. In 2002, there were 23 men ... seen across all age groups in the tamoxifen arm ( Table 1 ). This was significant for cancers that were greater than ...
Clinical Articles October 2004
... (STD) guidelines were published by Health Canada in 1998. [1]  In 2002 and 2003, the STD/AIDS Control Division of the ... The pretest counseling guidelines currently in use in BC [1]  were designed to promote physician-patient dialogue on ... response rate of 34%. Male practitioners accounted for 62.1% of the total and female practitioners for 37.9%. The ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Ray Copes, MD, FRCPC October 2004
... effects due to in utero exposure to methylmercury. [1]  However, a recent review points out the basis for this ... most recent data indicate a mean blood mercury of 0.3 ppb (1.5 nmol/L) in children aged 1 to 5 and a mean of 1.2 ppb (6 nmol/L) in women aged 16 to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Daniel L. Metzger, MD, FAAP, FRCPC November 2004
Type 1 diabetes (T1D, previously called insulin-dependent or ... of the insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas. [1]  While T1D affects males and females equally, there are ... (using 1990 American data) is estimated at 0.19%, or about 1 in 500 children aged 0 to 19 years. [3]  This corresponds ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP November 2004
... affects approximately 5% of adults, which means more than 1 million Canadians. [1,2] Having diabetes substantially increases one’s risk of ... receive dietary advice from a registered dietitian. [1,2,13] Diabetes teaching centres (DTCs), also known as ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michelle Fung, MD, FRCPC November 2004
Advances in the treatment of type 1 diabetes (T1D) in the past decade have occurred in the ... insulin profiles. Prevention of complications in type 1 diabetes The importance of glycemic control in preventing ... clearly demonstrated by the results of the DCCT in 1993. [1]  The DCCT was a 9-year study examining the effect of ...