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Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD June 2006
... expletive-mumbling endurance test, but a recent 2-hour period of standing (more like fidgety dancing) in an ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP June 2006
... of deaths in residential care increased from 21.9% to 28.2% while the number of deaths that occurred in hospital ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Ray Copes, MD, FRCPC June 2006
... injury [1]  and long-term decline in lung function [2]  in law enforcement personnel dealing with clandestine ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Amy C. MacArthur, MHSc June 2006
... ranges from 26% to 95% among different risk groups. [2-12]  However, few researchers have examined samples from ... likelihood methods and significance was assessed using a 2-tailed test with 5% alpha. Results Twenty-three people ... (56.5%) or testing for cancer susceptibility (52.2%), while one-third were undecided about use of either of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Richard Beever, MD June 2006
... die from malaria, including one child every 30 seconds. [2]  In response, numerous measures have been used to protect ... 19, 21 ( P >.05); Spec: 14, 14 ( P >.05); ASSS: 4, 2 ( P >.05); DEET: 0, 0 ( P >.05). Comparing each repellent ... Spec, and that DEET protected better than ASSS ( Table 2 ), which was 85% as effective as DEET. Conclusions On any ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hin Hin Ko, MD June 2006
... people were more than twice those of other racial groups. [2]  Furthermore, a retrospective study of BC Transplant ... (1% to 18%) than among non-Aboriginal populations (0.5% to 2%). [8] Similarly, high rates of viral hepatitis have been ... was found to be 0.82%, with the highest prevalence, 2.63%, found in those aged 40 to 59 years. In accordance with ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Don Krawciw, MD July/August 2006
... evidence with clinical expertise and patient values.” [2]  Principles of outcome measurement and critical appraisal ...
Obituaries / BY: Cliff Henderson, MD, July/August 2006
... During his last years as director, plans for the $6.2 million Kelowna Health Unit on Ellis Street were completed. ...
News / BY: Mark Bigham, MD July/August 2006
... is the period of highest WNV risk to the blood supply. [1,2]  As in the previous 2 years, no case of transfusion-transmitted (TT)-WNV was ... of public health-reported WNV in a health region over a 2-week period exceeding either 1:1000 in rural areas or ...
Letters / BY: Warren Bell, MD, CM, CCFP, FCFP(LM) July/August 2006
... clinician, Dr John Abramson’s Overdosed America. [2]  Or he might consider rereading the classic book, The ...