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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Natalie Prystajecky, PhD, SCCM April 2011
... of GI illness, potentially related, occurring within a 4-day period and within a specific geographic area (i.e., ... care facilities (48%), hospitals (31%), and day cares (4%). Other settings such as food establishments and events ... at the BCPHMRL showed that 80% of those were caused by GII.4 variants of NoV, the most common variant worldwide.  This ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Peter Rothfels, MD April 2011
... recommend the use of benzodiazepines to treat pain[ 4 ] or muscle spasms. For more information WorkSafeBC’s ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Andre Mattman, MD, FRCPC May 2011
... presence of a specific inherited mitochondrial disease.[ 4 ] In the case of a suspected maternally inherited syndrome, ... diagnostic and management process. The index patient (IV-4) presented with clinical features of subacute necrotizing ...
Clinical Articles May 2011
... basis are known, including 2576 autosomal, 227 X-linked, 4 Y-linked, and 28 mitochondrial disorders.[ 1 ] It would ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sandra Sirrs, MD, FRCPC, May 2011
... larger subgroup and are transmitted in mendelian fashion.[ 4 ] Genetics thus indicate there are two genomes involved in ... people and are much more common than previously realized.[ 4 - 6 ]  Given the large number of nuclear genes involved in ... the mutation does not translate into clinical symptoms.[ 4 ]  Thus, as a group, primary mitochondrial diseases are ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Shahul Hameed, MD, May 2011
... enzymes in the mitochondrial energy production path­way.[ 4 ] In addition, cyto­chrome c oxidase activity is reduced ... Prevalence rates of 1% in the 60-plus age group and 4% among those 80 and over suggest that aging is an important ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC May 2011
... time by more effective drugs with less adverse effects.[ 2-4 ] Levamisole was also used as a vet­erinary antihelminthic ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ray Copes, MD, FRCPC May 2011
... strengths. Thus, when considering total RF exposure,[ 4 ] it is important to remember that Wi-Fi may represent only ... exposure of 100% RF absorbed by tissue) was 3.09 to 4.61 W/kg.[ 7 ]  Exposures related to Wi-Fi are much lower. ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Susan Hynes, BA, MBA, May 2011
... non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma 3. Primary bladder cancer 4. Primary site brain cancer 5. Primary colorectal cancer ... lymphoma 3. 15 years for primary site bladder cancer  4. 10 years for primary site brain cancer 5. 20 years for ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Doson Chua, PharmD, BCPS(AQ), June 2011
... Hypertension Education Program (CHEP) guidelines.[ 4,5 ] Heart failure  Clinical trials uniformly show that ...