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Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Andrade, MD, FRCPC, June 2008
... mortality of approximately 162 per 100000 population.[ 1 ]  In 1999, CVD accounted for 36% of all deaths in British ... managed accordingly. Diabetes As of 2004, approximately 1.3 million Canadians, or 4.9% of the population age 12 or ... mortality rate in this population ( Figure 1 ).[ 12 ]  This excess rate of CVD is partly explained by ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Navid Dehghani, MD, FRCPC, June 2008
... all make children susceptible to foreign body aspiration.[ 1 ]  In the first 9 months of 2007, the divisions of ... foods most commonly responsible for lethal choking ( Table 1 ). Retrieval of these objects requires prompt basic life ... and then experiences paroxysmal coughing for at least 1 minute. While a severe coughing fit suggests an airway ...
News&Notes / BY: Kashmira Suraliwalla July/August 2008
... members from $800 to $880 per day; to be effective July 1, 2008.” After some questions and discussion, this motion ...
News / BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS July/August 2008
... average age of diagnosis for multiple sclerosis is 30.[ 1 ] • Almost all spinal cord injuries (97%) occur before ...
News / BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS July/August 2008
... renewal package. All MEDOC travel insurance renews on 1 September each year, regardless of the date that you ...
Letters / BY: Tom Elliott, MBBS, July/August 2008
... government-driven requirements of the Master Agreement[ 1 ]—that is, that development of my product will be ...
ICBC / BY: Doug Harrington, July/August 2008
... for that service and any resultant cost to society.”[ 1 ] The courts may allow the expense of a private MRI in a ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Wilma Arruda, MD, July/August 2008
... distress and impair their day-to-day functioning.[ 1 ]  • Suicide is the second-leading cause of death among ... youth receive any form of psychological care and a mere 1% to 2% are treated by mental health specialists.[ 5 ] • Every $1 spent on psychological ser­vices yields a savings of $5 in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Betty Tang, MD, FRCPC, July/August 2008
... in this patient population can be challenging.[ 1 ] Individuals with developmental disability are less likely ... may not be considered reliable in their self-report (Cases 1 and 2). In other cases, a patient may have an Axis I ... disorder that requires treatment (Case 3).  Case 1:  “Sheryl” is a 40-year-old woman with a mild to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jeffrey M. Pike, MD, MPH, FRCSC July/August 2008
... for limb salvage and increased mortality for the patient.[ 1 - 4] In 2004, 84 patients with soft tissue sarcomas were ... per 100000 people in British Columbia,[ 5 ] less than 1% of family practice physicians in BC will encoun­ter a ... to a multidisciplinary centre have inferior outcomes.[ 1 - 4 ]  A multidisciplinary centre has the advantages of ...