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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC November 2010
... committed an impaired driving offence within the previous 4 hours; (b) the driver was involved in a crash resulting in ... and if drawing blood would endanger the patient.  4) The Criminal Code should be amended to remove the ...
News / BY: Michael Schachter, MD, November 2010
... British Columbians live with high-risk CKD stage 3 to 4. At the same time, BC has only about 50 full-time ...
Physician Spotlight / BY: Angus Rae, MB, FRCPC November 2010
... used it in 1948, as did the Americans in the same year;[ 4 ] hence Dr Palm­er was the first to succeed with Dr ... a possibility us­ing this Scribner-Quinton shunt.[ 2 , 4 ] Dr Palmer, alert to these advances, saw the potential of ... shunt was superseded by the Cimino-Brescia fis­tula[ 2 , 4 ] and the Palmer-Quinton catheter by the Tenckhoff ...
Clinical Articles / BY: P. Terry Phang, MD December 2010
... treated for rectal cancer in BC.[ 1 ] Pelvic recurrence at 4 years occurred in 16% of rectal cancer patients for all ... resections using TME were reported to be as low as 4%. A new protocol for preoperative short-course radiation ... and TME resulted in a 2-year local recurrence of 2.4% in a Dutch national trial.4 On the basis of this and other ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Lauren MacDonald, BScH, MSc, December 2010
... population was 1.3% at 15 years, 2.5% at 20 years, and 4% at 25 years.  The most common second ma­lignancies were ... possible; sperm banking for patients with Tanner stage 4 or higher; surgical sperm retrieval if patient is Tanner stage 4 but unable to produce a semen sample; and testicular tissue ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Wilma Arruda, MD, December 2010
... to regard youngsters as its most important clients.”[ 4 ]  With prevention as the aim, the movement led to the ...
News December 2010
... community partners to fight breast cancer. Over the past 4 years BC has increased spending on screening mammography by ...
News&Notes / BY: Gerry Greenstone, MD, December 2010
... without juice had numerous deaths from the disease.[ 4 ]  In 1747 Dr James Lind carried out his famous experiment ...
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