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Letters / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC March 2008
... and regulation[ 6 ] have been raised. Prescription drugs[ 7 ] and pharmaceutical products[ 8 ] contained in CAM ...
Obituaries / BY: Archie Young, MDCM, March 2008
... of staff at the Chilliwack General Hospital, and District 7 representative to the Board of Directors of the BCMA for 15 ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Jonathan Fenton, MD, FRCS, March 2008
... sessions that WorkSafeBC will sponsor for groups of 7 to 10 physicians at a location of your choice. The two ...
Premise / BY: Benedikt Fischer, PhD, April 2008
... with high-risk drug use in the downtown core.[ 7 , 8 ] These are exactly the problems that SCS are designed ...
News / BY: Susan Attridge, RRT, April 2008
... and colleagues, Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, 2003;7(10) is a concise source for understanding pulmonary ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM April 2008
... I, et al. Clinical review: Severe malaria. Crit Care 2003;7:315-323. Available online:  http://ccforum.com/content/7/4/315 . BC Centre for Disease Control Remember to think of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Wen Q. Gan, MD, MSc, April 2008
... more likely to be affected than are upper limb muscles.[ 7 ]  Muscle atrophy is largely responsible for the reduction ... fibres) are related to the reduction in muscle endurance.[ 7 ] The mechanisms of skel­etal muscle dysfunction are ... pa­tients in the highest quintile for CRP levels (mean, 7.1 mg/L) at baseline with those in the lowest quintile ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Don D. Sin, MD, MPH, FRCPC, April 2008
... greater than 65 years increases the risk of complication 4.7-fold or by 370%). • Smoking history (e.g., smoking ... of longer than 40 or more pack-years increases the risk 5.7-fold or by 470%). • A history of COPD (this increases ... time of 9 seconds or more (this increases the risk 5.7-fold or by 470%).  • Surgical time of 2.5 hours or more ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Frank Ervin, MD, FRCPC, April 2008
... in organs other than the lung (21%). Only 57 patients (7.8%) died of respiratory disease other than lung cancer.  ... recommendations,[ 6 ] which are also available online.[ 7 ] Methods of end-of-life symptom management are well outlined in the CTS document[ 6 , 7 ] and in a recent up­date.[ 8 ] A comprehensive review of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nabil Al Lawati, MD, MRCP, April 2008
... to accelerated rates of decline in lung function.[ 7 ] Mortality among those who are admitted to hospital with ... predicted. A dose of 30 to 40 mg of prednisone per day for 7 to 10 days is recommended.[ 17 ] Antibiotics.  Whereas ...