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News&Notes / BY: Lila Yewchuk, MD, FRCPC, June 2012
... is expected to double in children younger than 5 by 2020.[ 4 ]  The goal in diabetes management is to optimize blood ... measurement of blood glucose that tracks changes over 3 to 4 months. The aim is to avoid hyperglycemia (high blood ... lowers the risk of microvascular complications by 40%.[ 4 ] Glucose extremes in children with T1D   In adults with ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) June 2012
... declares, “Good medicine is based in good science,”[ 4 ] yet students are in­struct­ed in traditional Chinese ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Hal D. Gunn, MD, June 2012
... loss was found to reduce breast cancer recurrence by 24%.[ 4 ] •    An RCT found that a program of health ... studies of all InspireHealth patients with stage 4 colon cancer (121 patients), stage 3B and 4 lung cancer (122 patients), and stage 4 breast cancer (119 ...
President's Comment / BY: Nasir Jetha, MD, June 2012
... has again risen from the previous survey. Up overall by 4 percentage points from the 2010 survey, members primarily ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Gibong Lee, BSc(Pharm), MD, July/August 2012
... normal complements levels, and no cryoglobulins. By day 4 of admission, the patient had improved clinically. Her only ... US[ 2 , 3 ] and up to 46% of cocaine samples in Canada.[ 4 ] It is thought that levamisole is a preferred adulterant ... earlobe[ 8 ] and leg involvement, as well as neutropenia.[ 4 , 10 , 11 ]  Where our case differed from others was in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Philippa Hawley, FRCPC July/August 2012
... in BC authorized to prescribe methadone for analgesia (6.4% of registered physicians), with a significant proportion ... other drugs, its use involves potentially serious risks.[ 4 , 5 ] Methadone has a long and variable half-life, which ... Most problems with metha­done occur within the first 4 weeks of therapy or after inadvertent coadministration with ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM July/August 2012
... (from animal sources) usually do not appear until 1 to 4 weeks after the chancre. During the time the ulcer heals,  ... and cardiovascular or neurological signs and symptoms.[ 4 ] The laboratory diagnosis of sy­philis infection is ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP July/August 2012
... of their right to refuse or withdraw from treatment.[ 4 ] If we physicians find this confusing, then we can be sure ...
Letters / BY: Michael J. Passmore, MD, July/August 2012
... reduce acute or dangerous be­havioral disturbances[ 3 , 4 ] Clinicians are thus often left with basically no ...
News / BY: Jean Lauzon, MD, FRCSC, July/August 2012
... for every death. In the Vietnam War, the ratio was 2.4:1. “That’s the reason the VA is being overwhelmed,” ...