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Letters / BY: Mark Fok, MD, FRCPC July/August 2012
... needed to treat (NNT) are quoted as ranging from 5 to 11.[ 2 ] They conclude “antipsychotic drugs show minimal ... an additional 58 to 94 patients with gait disturbance.[ 2 ] Such information is useful for clinicians to make ...
Letters / BY: Peter Coy, MB, July/August 2012
... Expert Panel on Tobacco Smoke and Breast Cancer Risk[ 2 ] concluded, as a result of reviewing 30 studies since ...
Letters / BY: Michael J. Passmore, MD, July/August 2012
... such as pain can alleviate behavioral disturbances.[ 2 ]  While worthy of consideration, nonmedication management ...
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,” ...
News&Notes / BY: Jay Draper July/August 2012
... Committee, and the General Practice Services Committee ($2.2 million). But despite the in­crease in costs over 2010, ... Brodie explained that dues for 2012 were raised by $25 (a 2% increase). The last time there was a dues increase was in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sophia Wong, MD, FRCPC September 2012
... for lysosomal acid lipase (LAL) on chromosome 10q23.2-q23.3.[ 17 , 18 ] Normally, when LDL binds to its ... value for low density lipoprotein cholesterol: LDL-C = TC 2 HDL-C 2 TG/2.2  (in units of mmol/L)   or LDL-C = TC 2 HDL-C 2 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Forbes, MD, September 2012
... rates and made the return to usual activities faster.[ 2 ] The optimal duration of convalescence has thus been a ... work after surgery, general practitioners recommended 6.2 weeks and patients actually took an average of 7.0 weeks ... compared with laparoscopic techniques (13% to 15% vs 2.4%).[ 23 ]  While the type of repair appears to have an ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM September 2012
... slowly up to age 25, beyond which it rapidly declines.[ 2 ]  Both of the two vaccines approved for use in Canada ... year, and in year 3 of the program HPV coverage was 68.2% for grade 6 and 61.7% for grade 9.  A survey of parents ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP September 2012
... that recreational screen time should be no more than 2 hours per day. Currently children and youth average close ... per day with only 19% of kids aged 10 to 16 meeting the 2-hour guideline.  We know (or we should know) all of this. ...
Editorials / BY: Timothy C. Rowe, MBBS, FRCSC, FRCOG September 2012
... eggs from the ovaries. The waiting list ballooned to 2 years. Fortunately, after some years the need for ...