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News November 2011
... demonstrate that the SOD1 protein (superoxide dismutase 1), which has been shown to be implicated in the ALS disease ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marilyn J. Borugian, PhD, December 2011
... 30% in male-female incidence rates is seen across Canada[ 1 ] and holds for virtually all states, pro­vinces, and ... for more than 50 years in Canada and other countries.1 Gender-based disparities are also seen for individual ... 2006, the last year for which national data are available,1 and the same pattern holds within BC.  Oral cancers are ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Roger A.L. Sutton, DM, FRCPC, FRCP, FACP, December 2011
... fracture is substantially higher in men than in women.[ 1 , 2 ] Epidemiology Trauma (usually falls), reduced bone ... from aging of the population.  Although both the 1-year mortality and the need for institutional care after a ... females, which results in different T-scores (0.5 to 1.0 SD units lower when normal male data are used) and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Dan Bilsker, PhD, December 2011
... in men has been des­cribed as a “silent epidemic.”[ 1 ] It has a disturbingly high incidence and is a major ... rate is about three times that of women.[ 11 ]   Figure 1  charts the age- and gender-specific incidence of suicide ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Mark Gilbert, MD, MHSc, FRCPC December 2011
... for people choosing to notify their partners themselves.[ 1 ] Developed in 2004 by Internet Sexuality Information ... they would use the service to notify their sex partners.[ 1 ]  Most people using the inSPOT service do include a ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) December 2011
... comes to claims of treatment or cure of dreaded diseases.[ 1 ]  Good doctors have always taken care to deliver the best ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brendan Abbott, December 2011
... office signed up, visit  www.info.chardbc.ca  or call 1 877 330-7322. —Brendan Abbott Manager, Business Solutions ...
Letters / BY: Brian Day, MB December 2011
... to be selective, and others refute their claims.[ 1 ]  Further, they do not address the plight of candidates ...
Letters / BY: Francis Ho, MD, December 2011
... Ho, MD Vancouver Advance directives gained legal status on 1 September 2011. Written consent for (or refusal of) health ...
Letters / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP December 2011
... there is less reporting of pain by the patient and staff[ 1 ] and less use of analgesics.[ 2 , 3 ]  Dr Chan notes that ...