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Clinical Articles / BY: Nathan A. Hoag, BSc, October 2008
... screening reduces mortality has yet to be presented.[ 6 , 7 ]  Previous studies investigating prostate cancer ... years (SD 9.85 years). The mean years in practice was 22.7 years (SD 9.8 years).  Of the total respondents, 81.0% ... do not influence their screening practices, while 7.7% of physicians 45 and younger and 4.8% of physicians 46 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Andrade, MD, FRCPC, October 2008
... but surgery may be required in up to 50% of cases.[ 5 , 7 ]  Indications for surgery include factors related to the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nupura Krishnadev, MD, October 2008
... reduce a patient’s average life expectancy by 10 years.[ 7 ] The advent of atypical antipsychotics in the 1990s ... patients experienced a weight gain of more than 7% body weight, compared with 12% of patients treated with ...
Premise / BY: Marshall Dahl, MD, PhD, FRCPC November 2008
... by those with diabetes in the United States (A1c of 7.0% to 7.9%) and lower than at study entry.  [1]  The intensive ... to the conventional group that had a median A1c of 7.5%. This is equivalent to one extra death in the intensive ...
News November 2008
... Human Sexuality), province-wide trends in data from grade 7–12 students in 1992, 1998, and 2003 show that youth are ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP November 2008
... but more emergency and hospital visits, and an estimated $7.3 billion (1998 US dollars) in extra medical costs. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Anne R. Synnes, MDCM, FRCPC, MHSc, November 2008
... 26% to 82% at 24 weeks, and 44% to 82% at 25 weeks.[ 7 ] In 2006, survival rates that were adjusted for GA, ... GA, 23% survival is in the midrange between 0% and 46%.7 With increasing GA, and specifically at 25 weeks’ GA, our ... on par with the highest in Europe and the United States.[ 7 ],[ 25 ],[ 26 ]  A limitation of this study is that the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Osman S. Ipsiroglu, MD, MAS, MBA, November 2008
... are known to have hard-to-treat chronic sleep disorders.6,7 The burden of care for the caregivers of these children may ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Susan Albersheim, MD, FRCPC, PhD, November 2008
... Diekema has proposed the “harm principle.”[ 7 ] Die­kema suggests that parental decision-making ... high and the risk of significant complications minimal.[ 7 ] And in order to limit treatment when parents request full ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD December 2008
... physician. If your injured worker patient is on opioids 7 weeks postinjury or postsurgery, you will receive two ...