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Clinical Articles / BY: Ali Zentner, MD, FRCPC, Diplomate ABOM April 2010
... cardiovascular (CV) risk factors such as hypertension[ 1 ] in response to overwhelming evidence showing the CV ... recited Hamlet from memory. He died at the age of 92 on 1 February 2005 in Washington, DC, of multiorgan ...
Clinical Articles / BY: S.E. Lord, MD, April 2010
... and 14 252 injuries from pedestrian trauma (PT).[ 1 ] Many of these injuries are complex and require prolonged ... advances in the reduction of injuries and fatalities,[ 1 , 3 ] the rates of PT remain high and the consequences are ... addresses who were admitted to trauma hospitals between 1 January 2001 and 1 December 2006, and ICD-10 codes for an ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Natalie Prystajecky, PhD, SCCM April 2010
... diagnosis in British Columbia for such an event.[ 1 ] The Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network (CPHLN;  ... and help minimize impacts.  As shown in  Figure 1 , there were two waves in the pandemic; the first in late ... on the frontlines, we also observed that during pH1N1, 26.1% of samples came with incorrect requisitions, something ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Kathleen Cadenhead, MD April 2010
... recommended the adoption of the WHO Growth Charts[ 1,2 ] for monitoring the growth of Canadian children in all ... weighed and measured by their health care provider within 1 to 2 weeks of birth, at 2, 4, 6, 9, 12, 18, and 24 months, ...
Letters / BY: David R. Richardson, MD April 2010
... BCMJ  Editorial Board members and competing interests.[ 1 ] The writers felt that editorialists (who are all  BCMJ ...
Letters / BY: Robert Shepherd, MD April 2010
... article “The history of bloodletting” [ BCMJ 2010;52(1):12-14 ] was interesting, as was his suggestion that some ...
News April 2010
... fees will be im­plemented on schedule, effective 1 April 2010. This includes new fee items, amendments, and ... services (A-lettered items) increased by 2.5% on 1 April 2010. These new fees are also posted at  ...
News April 2010
... agreed to implement the following new initiatives starting 1 April 2010: • Specialist-to-physician urgent telephone ...
News&Notes / BY: Eugene Leduc, MD April 2010
... 2 years. This includes our attendance at ViVa meetings 1 year before departure, our 6-month service on Tanna, and ... as such.” Suggested reading Primary Surgery. Vol 1. Ed M. King, P. Bewes, J. Cairns, et al. Oxford: Oxford ...
Obituaries / BY: W. James Corbett, MD, April 2010
... his sister Ena. George’s other sister, Kay, passed away 1 week before his celebration of life. —W. James Corbett, ...