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Clinical Articles / BY: Doson Chua, PharmD, BCPS(AQ), June 2011
... Hypertension Education Program (CHEP) guidelines.[ 4,5 ] Heart failure  Clinical trials uniformly show that ACEIs ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC June 2011
... less abundant, and is less likely to feed on deer mice.[ 3-5 ] Studies have shown that infectivity rates are lower in ... 41 and 70 years of age (mean age 43.7 years, range 3.5–80.6). One-third of patients acquired their illness ... and California, with yearly incidence rates of less than 0.5 per 100000 population (including travel-related cases). ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Richard T. Lester, MD, June 2011
... year, the number of cell phone subscriptions surpassed 5 billion worldwide.[ 1 ] Statistics Canada recently reported ... treatment for conditions such as diabetes and asthma.[ 5 ] Our aim at the BC Centre for Disease Control is to assist ...
Editorials / BY: Susan E. Haigh, MD June 2011
... held accountable. Patients need to be accountable as well. 5. Harassment regarding call-backs. I get 10 to 15 patient ...
MDs To Be / BY: Blair G. Fulton, MASc, June 2011
... local air quality, and an increased sense of community.[ 5 ] Even if patients (and doctors) are unable or unwilling to ...
News / BY: Julie Kwan, BBA, CFP, CLU, GBA June 2011
... for a physician earning $200 000 net would only provide 5 years of replacement income—not long enough if the ...
News June 2011
... kills over 600 000 African children under the age of 5. For more information, visit  www.msf.ca . News How to ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Gerry Greenstone, MD, June 2011
... a time when standard therapies were mostly ineffective.[ 5 ] This stimulated the growth of “buyers’ clubs,” ... Furthermore, after 12 months of follow-up, “22.5 +/-5% of the 84 patients remained event-free and 58 +/-5% were ...
Proust for Physicians / BY: Marco Terwiel, MB, MD, CCFP, FCFP, June 2011
... in 1961. He practised as a family physician in the US for 5 years before moving, in 1968, to Maple Ridge, BC. He is ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Aspasia Michoulas, BSc Pharm, MD, July/August 2011
... should I do? 4. Does the child require treatment?  5. What else should I think about? 1. Was the episode an ... or a reduction of the oxygen content in the blood,[ 3 , 5 ] and are not epileptic in nature.  An electrocardiogram ... The parents can be shown how to use rectal diazepam (0.5 mg/kg; max­imum dose 10 mg) or buccal midazolam (0.3 ...