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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Duncan Robertson, MD, FRCP, FRCPC June 2005
Older people fall and injure themselves quite commonly, resulting ...
Back Page / BY: Jonathan Down, MBBS, MHSc, DCH, FRCPC June 2005
... nor had I considered that it might change my own practice. People with FASD often have damage to the part of the brain ... and if you do, try to recognize it early and redirect. People with FASD are very literal in their interpretation of ... I learned to keep my language simple and unambiguous. People with FASD have difficulty in the area of ...
Letters / BY: Lynn Moran July/August 2005
... serious gaps in service provision for non-English speaking people and those with limited ability in the language. ... In today’s British Columbia, where over one million people are immigrants and where over 100 000 do not speak ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB July/August 2005
... deterioration that occurs when sick or injured people wait for care. With this decision Canada will move to ...
Editorials / BY: Alan Brookstone, MD July/August 2005
... is a loss of collegiality. Not because we’re bad people or have any less respect for one another than we did ...
Editorials / BY: Adeera Levin, MD, FRCPC July/August 2005
... and diabetes. Currently, it is estimated that 145 000 people in British Columbia have some kidney impairment ... year nationwide. While not all of the identified 145 000 people will necessarily require dialysis, reduced kidney ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC July/August 2005
... infections are clinically inapparent. Approximately 20% of people infected with WNV develop a milder, often febrile, illness (WNF). Approximately 1 in 150 (0.7 %) people infected will develop severe neurological disease ... neurological disease is increasing age. In particular people over the age of 50 are at risk for severe illness. In ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael D.D. McNeely, MD, FRCPC, FCACB July/August 2005
... creatinine tend to be overly liberal. As well, 40% of people with reduced GFR have been found to have normal serum ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nancy Craven, MD, CCFP July/August 2005
... point of view, even practical. There are too many people at risk for kidney failure and too few nephrologists ... As stated in Recommendation 6 of the BC guidelines, “people with kidney disease have better outcomes if they take ... may have kidney disease. A large percentage of these people have diabetes, high blood pressure (the major causes ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Lesley A. Stevens, MD, FRCPC July/August 2005
... recommendations include regular testing for CKD in people at increased risk for CKD or with cardiovascular ...