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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Samir K. Sinha, MD, DPhil, FRCPC, September 2009
... and older in 2002, a 66% increase over the last 20 years.[ 1 ] This demographic imperative will continue into the future ... government health care spending by an additional 1% per year.[ 3 ] In 2005, per capita health care spending ... per capita health care spending among those age 1 to 65 was approximately $1700.[ 4 ] Current provincial ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB September 2009
... of categories of illness and injury was $15 billion in 1 year underline the increasing economic impact of health. ...
Interviews / BY: Jay Draper September 2009
... up general practice first in Whitecourt, Alberta, moving 1 year later to Burns Lake, BC, where he remained for 9 ...
Letters / BY: David M. Pelz, MD, September 2009
... services department in Canada”  BCMJ 2009;51[1]:14-19 ), and we congratulate the author on his group’s ... atherosclerotic disease is carotid endarterectomy (CEA).[ 1 ] The management of asymptomatic disease remains ...
News / BY: Christopher J.D. Wallis, September 2009
... Wiley and Sons Canada, Ltd., 2008. ISBN 978-0-470-15767-1. Softcover, 256 pages. $24.95. In a very readable and ...
President's Comment / BY: Brian Brodie, MD September 2009
... education, and volunteerism.  And, from 14 September to 1 October, there will be a blood drive clinic. To make an appointment with Blood Services please call 1 888 2-donate (1 888 236-6283) and let the blood clinic know your donation ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Howard N. Fenster, MD, FRCSC, October 2009
... complications noted by the FDA that we had observed.[ 1 ] We also made a number of recommendations, including the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Stephen Wheeler, MD October 2009
... have experienced high numbers of crashes and deaths.[ 1 ] However, our service has had events in flight where a ... deck is not separated from the patient area ( Figure 1 ). On rotor aircraft ( Figure 2 ) the conditions are even ... cognitively impaired patients prior to flight (see  Table 1 ). The committee recognized that only sending physicians ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Geoffrey W. Cundiff, MD, October 2009
... than 50 years old, is generally done with surgical mesh.[ 1 ] However, the FDA release does not address the sacral ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP October 2009
... be trying to achieve? An article by Ross and Janiszewski[ 1 ] references multiple studies showing that a reduction in ... men. This cohort study determined mortality rates of 27.1, 23.6, and 18.4 per 1000 person years in groups with low, ...