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Letters / BY: Ana Porzecanski, MD, April 2011
... is unhealthy, if one wants the equivalent of a 9-to-5 job, one should not go into medicine. Worst of all, those ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Andre Mattman, MD, FRCPC May 2011
... cristae (see histopathological findings in Figures 5 and 6 of “Primer on mitochondrial disease” in this ... energy generation. With the exception of coenzyme Q10,[ 5 ] this assumption remains largely unproven, although ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Andre Mattman, MD, FRCPC May 2011
... symptoms that may be more prominent in children.[ 1-5 ]  Adult-onset mitochondrial disease often presents in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sandra Sirrs, MD, FRCPC, May 2011
... in mitochondrial function, it is estimated that up to 1 in 5 individuals carry nuclear gene mutations, most of which are ... A muscle biopsy showed typical ragged-red fibres ( Figure 5 ), abnormal mitochondrial structure on electron microscopy ... including patients III-1, III-2, IV-1, IV-2, IV-3, and IV-5. Some family members with the mutation (IV-5) are ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Shahul Hameed, MD, May 2011
... is reduced in postmortem brain tissue of AD patients.[ 5 ]  Moreover, animal models of AD have dem­onstrated that ... and eventual paralysis and death, typically within 3 to 5 years of symptom onset. It is still not clear why the ... as well in a significant proportion of patients, with 5% having an overt frontotemporal dementia.[ 16 ] Other than ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Jane A. Buxton, MBBS, MHSc, FRCPC May 2011
... not been available in Canada for any purpose since 2005.[ 5 ] Levamisole is known to cause agranulocytosis in 3% to 10% ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ray Copes, MD, FRCPC May 2011
... proportion of an individual’s overall RF exposure.[ 5 ] In most countries, exposure limits for RF are set at the ... 1.6 W/kg limit to the head for uncontrolled exposures.[ 5 ] National standard-setting organizations maintain that ... 1%) of what is received during typical use of cellphones.[ 5 ] For this reason, much of the re­search on possible ...
News / BY: Julie Kwan, BBA, CFP, CLU, GBA May 2011
... Statistics, there were 6450 accidental deaths in the past 5 years, with car accidents and accidental falls as the ...
President's Comment / BY: Ian Gillespie, MD May 2011
... nonmembers who wish to access any negotiated benefits. On 5 March 2011 the BCMA was served with a class action lawsuit ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Susan Hynes, BA, MBA, May 2011
... 3. Primary bladder cancer 4. Primary site brain cancer 5. Primary colorectal cancer 6. Primary kidney cancer ... for each of the nine cancers is set out below:  1. 5 years for primary leukemia 2. 20 years for primary ... cancer  4. 10 years for primary site brain cancer 5. 20 years for primary site colorectal cancer 6. 20 years ...