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President's Comment / BY: Bill Mackie, MD October 2008
... plus the US election slated to run smack in the middle on 4 November, we will be terribly weary and glad to see the end ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nathan A. Hoag, BSc, October 2008
... with sensitivities of 72.1% for PSA and 53.2% for DRE.[ 4 ] Used in combination, PSA and DRE remain the best ... and physical examination has a sensitivity of 90.4%.[ 5 ] Prostate cancer screening has resulted in earlier ... from the completed questionnaires that were returned (51.4%) was used to finalize the questions and ensure they were ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Andrade, MD, FRCPC, October 2008
... which is estimated to occur in up to 50% of patients.[ 4 , 5 ]  Paravalvular extension of the infection, which is ... may lead to conduction abnormalities and heart block.[ 4 , 5 ] Embolic complications such as stroke, peripheral ... over time from 15% after 1 week of treatment to 1% after 4 weeks of treatment.[ 4 ]  Classic findings such as Janeway ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nupura Krishnadev, MD, October 2008
... The largest weight increase occurred with clozapine (4.0 kg) and olanzapine (3.5 kg), while zipra­sidone produced ... or more milliseconds is considered clinically significant.4 Other reports have also documented relatively greater QTc ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD November 2008
... cohort or case control studies. • Level 4—Case series. • Level 5—Expert opinion. Here are ...
Premise / BY: Marshall Dahl, MD, PhD, FRCPC November 2008
... per 1000 participants each year, over an average of almost 4 years of treatment.” The release went on to state that ... The ACCORD study has now published its results.  [4]  The article certainly confirms the earlier press release ... glycemic group had a median A1c at 1 year of 6.4% with a relative increase in overall mortality of 22% and ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Ray Copes, MD, FRCPC November 2008
... found that exposures greater than the range of 0.3 to 0.4 µT lead to a doubling risk of leukemia, with very little ... potential impacts in BC? Using current BC leukemia rates[ 4 ] and assuming similar proportions of the population live ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Anne R. Synnes, MDCM, FRCPC, MHSc, November 2008
... infants have been rising steadily over the last 20 years,[ 4 ]-[ 6 ] the variation in survival rates at 23 to 25 ... from multi­disciplinary standardized assessments at 4, 8, and 18 months corrected age and 3 and 41/2 years of ... care treatment at the threshold of viability (see  Table 4 ). The majority would either strongly advocate ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Susan Albersheim, MD, FRCPC, PhD, November 2008
... authority at the threshold of viability.[ 3 ],[ 4 ] In a recent study, researchers reported that a ... die, and which will have disabilities and which will not.[ 4 ]  Given the lack of uniformity in decision making and the ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD December 2008
... (68D80)—for completion and return to WorkSafeBC within 4 weeks. Payment for the completion and timely return of the ... Opioid/Narcotic Agreement to be signed and returned within 4 weeks if ongoing medication is required. This agreement is ... you. If WorkSafeBC has not received the completed forms 4 weeks after they are sent to you and your ...