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Clinical Articles / BY: Stephen Kennedy, MD, October 2010
... risk of toxicity.[ 3 ]  OARSI guidelines recommend up to 4 g per day as an effective first-line therapy in patients ... therapy, and their optimal outcome may be compromised.[ 4 ] We feel that strong opioid analgesics should be reserved ... hand OA.[ 2 ]  The mean reduction in pain was 33% after 4 weeks of therapy.[ 2 ] Treatment is safe, but local ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) October 2010
... received but not yet assessed, Health Canada on 4 August introduced the Natural Health Products (Unprocessed ...
Editorials / BY: Susan E. Haigh, MD October 2010
... that 26% of Canadians age 2 to 17 (more than 1 in 4) are overweight or obese, up from 15% in 1978. Ninety-five ...
News October 2010
... Wednesday, 3 November—Abbotsford  Thursday, 4 November—Burnaby  Friday, 5 November—Vancouver  ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Kukuh Noertjojo, MD, October 2010
... 3 ] during Achilles tendon surgery to promote healing,[ 4 ] and treating Achilles tend­ino­pathy.[ 5 ]  Lower-quality and lower-level studies[ 1-4 ] showed the effectiveness of PRP in treating various ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Robert C. Schweigel, MD, FRCSC, November 2010
... in an ACL-deficient knee in certain circumstances;[ 4 ] still, most surgeons will not perform a unicondylar knee ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Robert McCormack, MD, FRCSC, November 2010
... actually poor at predicting which patients would improve.[ 4 ]  In 2002 this technique came under close scrutiny when ...
Clinical Articles November 2010
... (36%) combined for over 95% of all surgical exposures.[ 4 ]   When minimally invasive surgery for THR is performed, ... The tapered titanium alloy cementless stem ( Figure 4 ) has grown in popularity[ 17 ] and is becoming commonly ... used less frequently, and usually in younger patients.[ 4 ] Ceramics.  Alumina ceramics were introduced in the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Daniel H. Williams, MSc, FRCS (Tr & Orth), November 2010
... the development of the modern total knee replacement.[ 4 ] Gunston, from the same centre as Charnley, went on to ... chosen to further improve coronal plane stability ( Figure 4 ). In­evitably this puts greater strain upon the hinge ... collateral ligament. 3. Posteromedial capsular release. 4. PCL sacrifice requiring the use of a posterior stabilized ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: David M. Patrick, MD, FRCPC, MHSc November 2010
... use of antibiotics in agricultural opera­tions.[ 4 ]  The effects on the environment and the contribution to ...