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Letters / BY: Ari Giligson, MD, June 2006
... meet the MSP medically required criteria for payment.” [1] A medically required examination by an ophthalmologist ...
Editorials / BY: Susan E. Haigh, MD June 2006
... assessment. A typical report that I see shows small (<1 cm) thyroid nodule, osteopenia, small renal/adrenal cyst, ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Ray Copes, MD, FRCPC June 2006
... been published documenting both acute inhalational injury [1]  and long-term decline in lung function [2]  in law ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Amy C. MacArthur, MHSc June 2006
... available resources as public interest intensifies. [1]  North American and European studies have suggested that ... to the survey, for an overall response rate of 22.1%. Survey respondents did not differ from nonrespondents ... all interested in receiving either of these services (13.1% and 13.0%, respectively). The primary influences cited for ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Richard Beever, MD June 2006
... if virus activity is reported in an area near you.” [1] On a global basis mosquito-transmitted disease is ... was negligible: the surface area of each limb was within a 1% variance of the mean surface area of 2102.5 cm2. Each ... and the number needed to treat to prevent one event was 1.00 (=1) for DEET and 1.17 (~1) for ASSS ( Table 1 ). ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hin Hin Ko, MD June 2006
... in First Nations women than non-First Nations women. [1]  Similarly, the death rates from chronic liver disease ... common among Canadian Inuit and First Nations populations (1% to 18%) than among non-Aboriginal populations (0.5% to ... Hepatitis A cases among Native Americans accounted for 1.1% of all cases reported in 2003, compared with 8.5% of ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Don Krawciw, MD July/August 2006
... application of recorded knowledge to each case.” [1] Codman’s ideas lay dormant while the field of clinical ...
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 ... in a health region over a 2-week period exceeding either 1:1000 in rural areas or 1:2500 in urban settings. SU testing was implemented for a ...
Letters / BY: Warren Bell, MD, CM, CCFP, FCFP(LM) July/August 2006
... oil revisited: For doctors’ eyes only”  (BCMJ 2006;48[1]:20-21) , he suggests that the entire world outside ... Dr Marcia Angell’s The Truth about the Drug Companies [1]  or respected clinician, Dr John Abramson’s Overdosed ...
Letters / BY: Michael Dettman, MD, July/August 2006
... to this letter In JAW’s editorial  (BCMJ 2006;48[1]:4-6)  and G.F.O. Tyers’s letter  (BCMJ 2006;48[4]:163) ...