News /
BY: Sinden Luciuk,
July/August 2012
... beneficiary and a typical death claim can be paid within 9 business days of the insurer receiving the necessary ...
News&Notes /
BY: Jay Draper
July/August 2012
... Annual Business Meeting and General Assembly Saturday, 9 June 2012 Pan Pacific Hotel, Vancouver With the ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Jason Forbes, MD,
September 2012
... Strict bed rest of 3 weeks followed by a convalescence of 9 weeks was commonly prescribed in the hopes of lowering ... that early return to activity has no detrimental effect.[ 9-11 ] In the modern era of mesh hernia repair, recurrence ... to work faster than those receiving disability benefits.[ 9 ] Various studies have considered the role of patient ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM
September 2012
... BC introduced HPV vaccination for girls in grades 6 and 9, with the grade 9 program ending after 3 years. By June 2012 girls to the end ... HPV coverage was 68.2% for grade 6 and 61.7% for grade 9. A survey of parents of grade 6 girls in the first year ...
Interviews /
BY: Jay Draper
September 2012
... also had the young crowd coming in who would come for the 9 months of the pregnancy and delivery and the postpartum ...
News /
BY: Anne I. Clarke, MD
September 2012
By Victoria A. Harden. 2012. ISBN 978-1-59797-294-9. Hardcover: 304 pages. $29.95. This book is simply a ...
News
September 2012
... times, which found that Canadians waited an average of 9.5 weeks from an appointment with a specialist to receiving treatment in 2011, up slightly from 9.3 weeks in 2010. Across all provinces and medical ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Simon W. Rabkin, MD, FRCPC, FACC
October 2012
... can also produce a small increase in blood pressure.[ 9 ] Secondary hypertension Secondary causes of hypertension ... pressure by 22.7 mm Hg and diastolic blood pressure by 9.1 mm Hg.[ 11 ] Pressure-natriuresis is the increase in ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Nadia A. Khan, MSc, MD
October 2012
... treatment group with a target SBP of less than 140 mm Hg.9 This 232 factorial design trial also simultaneously ... causes (1.87% vs 2.09%; HR 0.88; 95% CI 0.73–1.06).[ 9 ] Intensive treatment did, however, reduce stroke, a ... endpoint (0.32% vs 0.53%; HR 0.59; 95% CI 0.39–0.89).[ 9 ] Intensive therapy also increased the risk of major ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Zena L. Simces, MA,
October 2012
... impact on prevention and management of hypertension.[ 1 , 9-14 ] More specifically, the risk factors of overweight, ...