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Clinical Articles / BY: Nevio Cimolai, MD, FRCPC January/February 2011
... of  C. difficile -associated disease is considerable.[ 2 , 3 ] Two typical clinical scenarios provide an ... the medication administered through the G-tube.  Over 2 years he was exposed to numerous antibiotics, including ... mg b.i.d. for 1 week, 125 mg o.d. for 1 week, 125 mg every 2 days for 2 weeks, and 125 mg every 3 days for 2 weeks. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Aaron Talsky, MD, January/February 2011
... ] and it is recog­nized increasingly in war zone injury.[ 2 ] In the US, approximately 2 million people will sustain a TBI each year, one-quarter of ... A National Institute of Health panel estimates that 2.5 to 6.5 million Americans currently live with TBI-related ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Réka Gustafson, MD, MSc, MHSc, FRCPC January/February 2011
... to be approximately 26% of all infected persons in Canada[ 2 ]) to enhance their strategies to prevent transmission.  ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Kathleen Cadenhead, MD January/February 2011
... screening tool for obese/overweight children over 2 years of age. • Normal BMI for 2- to 5-year-olds is 13 to 18 (compared with 18.5 to 25 for ... who presents in your office with his parents (see  Table 2 ). Educating parents/caregivers about their roles and ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB January/February 2011
... costs of health care in Canada. In a previous editorial[ 2 ] I wrote on some financial issues facing doctors. Read ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Clay Barber, January/February 2011
... to specialists by phoning a single number and within 2 hours—and often sooner—receive a return call from an ...
News January/February 2011
... a mole or lesion to determine skin cancer in less than 2 seconds. It will help avoid unnecessary biopsies and detect ...
News&Notes / BY: Dan Small, PhD, MPhil Cantab, January/February 2011
... of the Naicisyhp culture originate in Egypt in 1900 BC.[ 2,3 ] These early observations described a Naicisyhp healer ...
Obituaries / BY: William J. McLaren, MBChB, January/February 2011
1923–2010 Ian Findlay was born 2 December 1923 in Cullen, Scotland. He studied medicine at ... a wee bit daft” and go to Africa, to Nyasaland, to spend 2 years in a missionary hospital. In 1961 they returned to ...
Obituaries / BY: M. Graham Clay, MD, January/February 2011
... and a commissioned piece of Dr Brock Fahrni ( Figure 2 ).  During this very creative period, Chris was involved ...