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Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, November 2011
... contains a large proportion of people over 65. Over the 2 years since implementation he has become an enthusiastic ...
President's Comment / BY: Nasir Jetha, MD, November 2011
... and moving to director of professional relations for 2 years before becoming executive director and CEO.  All ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marilyn J. Borugian, PhD, December 2011
... countries where reliable incidence figures are collected.[ 2 ]  For the province of BC, the overall age-standardized ... much higher than that for females (6/100000 vs 2/100000).[ 1 ]  Risk factors for liver cancer include ... Common carcinogens are aromatic amines,[ 20 ] such as 2-naphthylamine used in rubber work,[ 21 ] and coal-tar pitch ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Roger A.L. Sutton, DM, FRCPC, FRCP, FACP, December 2011
... is substantially higher in men than in women.[ 1 , 2 ] Epidemiology Trauma (usually falls), reduced bone ... closely with estradiol than with testosterone levels.[ 2 ] Furthermore, increased bone turnover was shown to be ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Dan Bilsker, PhD, December 2011
... top three causes of mortality among men aged 15 and 44.[ 2 ] Among men of all ages in Canada, suicide ranked as the ... suicides for men and women in Canada, is shown in  Figure 2 .[ 17 ]  It should be noted that there is a spectrum of ... for 48% and 38% of suicide deaths respectively.[ 2 ] This observation un­dermines a simplistic, dichotomous ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Mark Gilbert, MD, MHSc, FRCPC December 2011
... showed that up to 20% of gay men knew of the service, 2% to 4% had sent or received an e-card, and three-quarters ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) December 2011
... million for InspireHealth’s “Integrative Medicine”[ 2 ] (alternative medicine treatments offered alongside ...
Letters / BY: Francis Ho, MD, December 2011
... was admitted to hospital for a severe illness. After about 2 to 3 weeks he had to be transferred to the intensive care ...
Letters / BY: Jeremy Smith, December 2011
... most physicians have been on their EMR for less than 2 years and therefore have not yet captured enough data for ...
Letters / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP December 2011
... by the patient and staff[ 1 ] and less use of analgesics.[ 2 , 3 ]  Dr Chan notes that hip fracture and cardiac ...