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Clinical Articles / BY: Gibong Lee, BSc(Pharm), MD, July/August 2012
... adulterant because it en­hances the cocaine effect.[ 5 ]  Levamisole was used in the past as an ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Philippa Hawley, FRCPC July/August 2012
... drugs, its use involves potentially serious risks.[ 4 , 5 ] Methadone has a long and variable half-life, which means ... exemption… Get rid of the exemption please.” Only 20.5% of family physician respondents in a position to provide ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM July/August 2012
... Without treatment infections may resolve within 1 to 5 weeks.  Humoral antibo­dies against cardiolipin (a ... sensiti­vity) for early as well as latent syph­ilis.[ 5 ] One challenge with this new approach, however, is that ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP July/August 2012
... is now a full code, she goes to the ICU and is treated for 5 days. She is able to be extubated and sent to the ward with ...
Letters / BY: Mark Fok, MD, FRCPC July/August 2012
... numbers needed to treat (NNT) are quoted as ranging from 5 to 11.[ 2 ] They conclude “antipsychotic drugs show ...
Letters / BY: Peter Coy, MB, July/August 2012
... school and where the rates, although dropping, are still 5% higher than children’s rates for each age cohort. That ...
Letters / BY: Michael J. Passmore, MD, July/August 2012
... patient was actually quite favorable, ranging from 5 to 11.[ 5 ]  A re­cent evidence-based risk-benefit utility analysis ...
News July/August 2012
... eliminates TNBC cells completely. The study, published 5 June 2012, reports that RSK2 inhibitors have the ability to ...
News&Notes / BY: Jay Draper July/August 2012
... The trial com­menced 30 January 2012 and continued for 5 weeks. In the rest of his report, Dr Brodie showed that in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sophia Wong, MD, FRCPC September 2012
... (in units of mmol/L)   or LDL-C = TC 2 HDL-C 2 TG/5 (in units of mg/dL) In this formula, where TG stands for triglycerides, and TG/2.2 (or TG/5) serves as a proxy for very low density lipoprotein ... statins, are known to be ef­fective in both primary[ 5-8 ] and secondary[ 9-11 ] prevention of CHD. Certainly our ...