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WorkSafeBC / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD November 2008
... and assigning levels of evidence as follows: • Level 1—Systematic review or randomized controlled trial. ... of Insurance Medicine. 2007;39:109-120 (evidence level 1)—This article is based on a systematic review ... JN.  Low back pain.  New England Journal of Medicine. 1 Feb 2001;344(5):363-370 (evidence level 5)—Succinct ...
Premise / BY: Marshall Dahl, MD, PhD, FRCPC November 2008
... (A1c of 7.0% to 7.9%) and lower than at study entry.  [1]  The intensive treatment group received multiple classes ... rosiglitazone, acarbose, insulin, and exenatide, a GLP-1 analog (a new class of anti-diabetic therapy not yet ... The intensive-therapy glycemic group had a median A1c at 1 year of 6.4% with a relative increase in overall mortality ...
Obituaries / BY: John O’Brien-Bell, MB November 2008
... they set up and ran the transitional care unit, providing 1 month’s active post-op care and rehabilitation to ...
News November 2008
... and among the youngest teens, that number is less than 1 in 10. The number of teens who report ever having sexual ...
News / BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS November 2008
... disability benefit. For disabilities occurring on or after 1 October 2008, the insurer will assess claims on the basis ... from the PDI policy for claims incurred on or after 1 October. The cash flow benefit will still be available to ...
News / BY: Ted Bain, MD, November 2008
... Rob­ertson. Victoria: Trafford Publishing, 2008. ISBN 1-4251-3512-9. Paperback, 343 pages. $23. Numerous books have ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Ray Copes, MD, FRCPC November 2008
... magnetic fields as a “possible” human carcinogen.[ 1 ] The first study to link childhood leukemia with ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Anne R. Synnes, MDCM, FRCPC, MHSc, November 2008
... accepted from 26 weeks’ gestational age (GA) on.[ 1 ]-[ 3 ] By contrast, initial resuscitation and management ... at 22 weeks plus 0 days to 25 weeks plus 6 days between 1 April 1999 and 31 March 2006. Standardized data are ... each week GA for all births and live births (see  Table 1 ). There were only two survivors at 22 weeks’ GA and 9 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Osman S. Ipsiroglu, MD, MAS, MBA, November 2008
... sleep is inadequate (e.g., nonrestorative or disturbed).[ 1 ],[ 2 ] This problem has been declared a major public ... that 15 million children are affected by inadequate sleep.1 A Canadian survey also indicates frequent sleep deprivation ... causes. For example, up to 80% of infants younger than 1 year have transient sleep difficulties that are no more ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Susan Albersheim, MD, FRCPC, PhD, November 2008
... decision-makers for their not-yet-competent children.[ 1 ],[ 2 ] Nested within surrogate decision making is an ...