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Clinical Articles / BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC June 2011
... over the 12-year period ( Figure 2 ); 45 patients (48.4%) were male and most were between 41 and 70 years of age ... mean age of patients with travel-related disease was 40.4 years, young­er than those who acquired Lyme disease in BC ... and acute serology is negative, a convalescent test 2 to 4 weeks later may aid in diagnosis.  Because erythema ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Richard T. Lester, MD, June 2011
... to improve adherence to their antiretroviral medication.[ 4 ]  After the first year of treatment, patients receiving ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) May 2011
... in use in BC, pages 1 and 2 of every edition from grades 4 to 7 contain the following statement about “expanding the ... assertion that traditional herbal remedies are effective.[ 4 ]  Efforts to honor the cultural milieu of students are to ...
Editorials / BY: Susan E. Haigh, MD June 2011
... office, we book the patient within the next 1 to 2 weeks. 4. Blaming mystery staff. We get a lot of comments that ...
MDs To Be / BY: Blair G. Fulton, MASc, June 2011
... expected to change local patterns of health and disease.[ 4 ] But how is having an environmental conscience relevant to ...
News June 2011
... three times a day in a drip that can take up to 4 hours, artesunate can be given in just 4 minutes, relieving both patient and staff burdens. Also, ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Gerry Greenstone, MD, June 2011
... inflammation, tumorigenesis, and viral replication.[ 4 ] Since people with HIV/AIDS are known to have elevated ... patients must use two methods of contraception beginning 4 weeks before and 4 weeks after therapy with thalidomide. Because of studies ...
Obituaries / BY: John O’Brien-Bell, MB June 2011
... year he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps for 4 years and, in 1960, was posted to Singapore and Malay­sia, ... elected to the BCMA Board of Directors, a post he held for 4 years.  In 1985 he became a medical advisor for the ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Susan Dixon June 2011
... of 2010, the Research Secretariat awarded a total of $17.4 million in grants for more than 175 projects covering a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Aspasia Michoulas, BSc Pharm, MD, July/August 2011
... cause of the seizure? 3. What investigations should I do? 4. Does the child require treatment?  5. What else should ... first seizure clinic have not had an epileptic seizure.[ 3,4 ] Some of the more common nonepileptic paroxysmal episodes ... who have had an epileptic seizure.[ 6 ] In addition, 3% to 4% of children who have not had an epileptic seizure have ...