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Clinical Articles / BY: Nevio Cimolai, MD, FRCPC March 2007
... capability. Natural honey has a low pH level of 3 to 5, which in itself inhibits microbe growth. A number of ... peroxide content and in their antibacterial activities. [5]  Excess heat treatment of honey may inactivate the ... effect in vitro is largely confined to bacteria. [5,7-10]  Antibacterial activity affects atypical ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hiram Mok, MA, MB BCh, BAO, FRCPC March 2007
... important for physicians to have an understanding of TCM. [5]  The object of this preliminary study was to determine ... ) ranged in age from 17 to 71 years, with a mean age of 43.5. There was equal representation from the three major ... Chronic schizophrenia  Delusional disorder 42  9 1 1 5 2 1 69% 15% 1.6% 1.6% 8.1% 3.3% 1.6% Table 2. Patients ...
Clinical Articles / BY: William J. Kierans, BA, MA March 2007
... based on births in a hospital in Melbourne, Australia. [5]   In 1993, the British Columbia Vital Statistics Agency ... length or head circumference were grossly improbable (>5 standard deviations from gestational age mean) and not ... at 40 weeks [6]  or overall, [13]  while others [3-5]  have reported no reliable gender differences. Our data ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Brett Heilbron, MB ChB March 2007
... [1-4]  Close to 100% of coronary arteries greater than 1.5 to 2.0 mm in diameter are reportedly assessable with 64-CT, ... 16-CT report only 70% of similar vessels are assessable. [5] The rapid acquisition time required to successfully image ... angiography. [8]  They reported sn of 72.2%, sp of 92.5%, ppv of 65.0%, and npv of 94.5% in the assessment of ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Don Graham, MD, CCFP April 2007
... group education sessions that run for 6 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 15 business days. They provide education ... include job site visits and monitoring for up to 6 weeks. 5. Post-discharge follow-up Post-discharge follow-up, once a ... worker is referred to the program, intake is typically 5 business days. In the first three quarters of 2006, the ...
MDs To Be / BY: Lee MacKay, BSc, April 2007
... members of the cooperative and can range anywhere from $5 to several thousand dollars, depending on the goals and ... promotion, education services, and ambulatory services; 5) remuneration of health care professionals by salary or ... has grown significantly only in the last few years. [5]  The recent expansion in the cooperative health sector in ...
Editorials April 2007
... The MSP fee for performing an intramuscular injection was $5.70 in 1982 and is $8.42 today. A consultation with a ... and neurosurgery, 50% of new graduates leave Canada within 5 years of completion of their training. They leave because ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) April 2007
... among alternative medicine providers to vaccines. [5-7] However, while parents, national scientific bodies, and ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Barbara Cadario, BSc, BScPhm, MSc April 2007
... discontinued. The man, who had started receiving donepezil 5 mg/day about 3 years previously, was admitted… he ... or failure to act on signs and symptoms of drug toxicity. [5-7]  In a recent study, 50% of patients taking continuous ...
Back Page / BY: Jay Draper April 2007
... with the other 3300 passengers on the cruise. The 12.5 hours of accredited CME was provided by the Journal’s ... Canada and the United States, were asked to evaluate, on a 5-point scale (with 5 being excellent), all sessions. The lowest-rated session ...