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Letters / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC March 2012
... containing aconite resulting in cardiac complication.[ 1 ] Health Canada should consider raising its regulation ...
Letters / BY: Devon Christie, MD, March 2012
... pursue “complementary and alternative medicine”[ 1 ] while 85% with advanced cancer use CAM.[ 2 ] ...
News / BY: Willem R. Vroom, MD March 2012
By Dr Eric J. Paet­kau. 2011. ISBN 978-1-55017-554-7. Paperback: 223 pages. $19.95. This is an ...
News March 2012
... Coastal Health region can phone 604 696-2131 or toll free 1 877 696-2131 to speak to specialists in the fields of ...
Premise / BY: A. Daniel Malebranche, MSc, MD, March 2012
... that carries a different course in black Americans[ 1 ] and that factors such as socioeconomic status as well as ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Carolyn Gotay, PhD, April 2012
... death in Canada, and accounts for 29.6% of Canadian deaths.1 As the most common invasive female cancer in Canada, breast ... a significant burden for women and society. Approximately 1 in 9 Canadian wo­men will develop breast cancer at some time in life, while 1 in 29 can be expected to die from the disease.  In 2011, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: David Creighton, MSc, April 2012
... to the biologically active hormone calcitriol, also called 1,25di­hydroxycholecalciferol (1,25(OH)D).  Cholecalciferol is synthesized in the skin in a ... are also used to fortify orange juice, cereal, and milk.[ 1 ] It is now clear that vitamin D is critically important in ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC April 2012
... the number re­ported to public health (13), for 2007.[ 1 ]  We sent a follow-up survey to 1500 randomly selected ... erythema migrans, 87% reported they suspected LD.  Figure 1  summarizes physician-observed clinical presentations of ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Kathleen Cadenhead, MD April 2012
... the perpetuation of weight-based stigma/discrimination.[ 1 ] Reflect on the language used with patients and adopt ... say that Food dominates your life?  Each “yes” equals 1 point; a score of 2 indicates a likely diagnosis of ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB April 2012
... differently; they have devised a plan over the final 1 to 2 years of their careers. They have looked forward to ...