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Obituaries / BY: Lloyd Hildebrand, MD, January/February 2009
... color, with a black bumblebee stripe and a 383-cubic-inch, 4-barrel muscle engine lurking under the hood. In his ...
MDs To Be / BY: Peter J. Nicholson, January/February 2009
... they are able to transfer to more desirable posts.[ 4 ] The same principle could well be applied to medical ...
Letters / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC January/February 2009
... syndrome presenting as prevarication anaphylaxis.[ 4 ] This report and other interesting cases from our ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM January/February 2009
... vaccine is to be used for the doses given to infants at 2, 4, and 6 months of age, and will replace the use of Pediacel ... ranging from birth to 15 months of age, whereas the 2-, 4-, and 6-month hepatitis B schedule in BC lends itself to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: D. Dance, BSc, LLB, January/February 2009
... removal rate of 45% and a compli­cation rate of 70%.[ 4 ] Difficult ECFB removals have also been associated with ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Albert W. Chan, MD, FRCPC, January/February 2009
... obstructive extracranial carotid artery disease.[ 4-7 ] While neuroradiologists have traditionally been ... was 83.0% (SD 8.1%), and the mean stenosis after CAS was 4.1% (SD 10.7%). While undergoing CAS, some patients also ... angio­graphy (22 patients), coronary angioplasty (4), renal angioplasty (4), and subclavian angioplasty (2). ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Andrade, MD, FRCPC, January/February 2009
... ECG results, and cholesterol levels (mean 6.2 to 9.4 mmol/L). The only significant predictor of later MI was a ... three dietary patterns: 3.11 mmol/L for native Japanese, 4.70 mmol/L for Hawaiian Japanese, and 5.50 mmol/L for Los ... most susceptible but must protect the entire population.[ 4 ] The Seven Countries Study helped confirm this and shift ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Carl Whiteside, MD, March 2009
... practice affects on recruitment for rural communities.[ 1-4 ] Evidence also supports admitting more students of rural ... include accompanying approximately 30 medical students and 4 residents per year to separate Society of Rural Physicians ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Ken Cooper, CPHIC March 2009
... individuals sought medical advice and received RPEP.[ 4 ] Nevertheless, the in­cidence of rabies in the US and ... of $2.1 billion in biologicals alone, per case prevented.[ 4 ] On the basis of this re-analysis of the rare risk of ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC March 2009
... in front of them, and applying more force while braking.[ 4 ] In their seminal article, Redelmeier and Tibshirani ...