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Clinical Articles / BY: Nevio Cimolai, MD, FRCPC January/February 2011
... colitis and pseudomembranous colitis.[ 1 ] While securing an honored place in my mind as a polished ... G-tube was initially successful, although relapse occurred 1 week later. Repeated episodes of  C. difficile -associated ... vancomycin: 125 mg q.i.d. for 14 days, 125 mg b.i.d. for 1 week, 125 mg o.d. for 1 week, 125 mg every 2 days for 2 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Aaron Talsky, MD, January/February 2011
... in functional, psychosocial, or physical abilities.1 It is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality, and ... vehicle accidents, falls, sports injuries, and violence,[ 1 ] and it is recog­nized increasingly in war zone injury.[ ... in­creasingly being used in both the subacute (less than 1 month post-TBI) and chronic (more than 1 month post-TBI) ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Réka Gustafson, MD, MSc, MHSc, FRCPC January/February 2011
... where prevalence of undiagnosed HIV infection is above 0.1%.[ 1 ]  Motivations include providing timely antiretroviral ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Kathleen Cadenhead, MD January/February 2011
... avoid categorizing young children too early (see  Table 1 ). • Serial measurements are recommend­ed. • Healthy ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB January/February 2011
... Canadian Institute of Health Information (CIHI) document[ 1 ] misguidedly blam­ed doctors’ fees as a major ...
News January/February 2011
... new bcmj.org officially launch­ed on 25 November, and on 1 December we selected the winner of our iPad draw. Dr Barry ... winner: Michael Yang, UBC Med­icine Class of 2014, Year 1 President, BSc(Hons), master’s of biotechnology. Thanks ...
News&Notes / BY: Dan Small, PhD, MPhil Cantab, January/February 2011
... published on the equally exotic Nacirema people.[ 1 ] While there is some debate among scholars as to the exact ...
Obituaries / BY: M. Graham Clay, MD, January/February 2011
... 1990, despite being busy sculpting in clay, stone ( Figure 1 ), bronze, and wood. In addition to his sculpture, he made ...
Premise / BY: Jamie Graham, January/February 2011
... must establish three key elements from the doctor: 1) That taking the samples will not endanger the subject’s ...
President's Comment / BY: Ian Gillespie, MD January/February 2011
... BC’s is 4.5 million. If we extrapolate from US data,[ 1 ] about 25000 people sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI) ...