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Family Practice Services Committee /
BY: Greg Dines,
May 2008
... 17%. A further survey in 2004 revealed just 12.9% of Canadian FPs were delivering babies.[ 1 ] There are a ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Borys Flak, MD, FRCPC,
May 2008
... optimizing sensitivity for detection of smaller polyps.[ 9 ] This technique results in an estimated effective radiation dose of 5.9 mSv, which compares with annual background radiation of 2.3 ... 26% to 27% for polyps less than 5 mm, 13% for polyps 6 to 9 mm, and 2% to 6% for polyps greater than 10 mm.[ 13 , 14 ] ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Barbara Poole Lane, MPA
May 2008
... epidemiology The lifetime risk of breast cancer is 1 in 9 for women in BC.[ 4 ] Approximately 2700 BC women are ... of breast cancer (available on the agency’s web site)[ 9 ] include the following recommendations: • Diagnostic ...
Letters /
BY: H. Davis, MD,
June 2008
... published in your journal in November 2007 [ BCMJ 2007;49(9):495 ], where I did express concern about the definition of ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM
June 2008
... infection (STI) and 8 of 10 adults will become infected; 9 of 10 infected women will clear the virus but the rest may ... will start offering HPV vaccine to girls in grades 6 and 9 in school-based clinics in the fall of 2008. Tertiary ... Gardasil was approved in Canada for girls and women aged 9 to 26 years in July 2006 and is now approved in over 100 ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Navid Dehghani, MD, FRCPC,
June 2008
... patients therefore require a more vigilant follow-up.[ 9 ] Clinicians should also be alert to the complication ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Jason Andrade, MD, FRCPC,
June 2008
... As of 2004, approximately 1.3 million Canadians, or 4.9% of the population age 12 or older, had been diagnosed with ... and a further 3.5% has undiagnosed glucose intolerance.[ 9 ] The presence of diabetes is a strong predictor of CAD, ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Navid Dehghani, MD, FRCPC,
June 2008
... to foreign body aspiration.[ 1 ] In the first 9 months of 2007, the divisions of emergency medicine and ... objects create more morbidity than the low-risk objects.[ 9 ] High-risk objects include any small hard pieces of ...
News&Notes /
BY: Kashmira Suraliwalla
July/August 2008
... Dr Jan Burg at his ranch the evening before. Shortly after 9:30 a.m., the BCMA business meeting started, with Dr Geoff ...