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Clinical Articles / BY: Tasleem Rajan, MD, January/February 2012
... of hyperkale­mia in hospitalized patients is between 1% and 10%.[ 1-3 ] The majority of cases are due to medications, including ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Wei-Shuen King, MD, FRCPC, January/February 2012
... or only weakly supported by the available literature.[ 1-4 ]  Standardized use of al­bumin is necessary to ensure ... for each albumin order filled during the study period: 1 October to 1 December 2009. The form included fields for the hospital, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Leslie A. Sadownik, MD, MEd, FRCSC, January/February 2012
... prevalence of this condition range from 4% to 28%.[ 1-2 ]  The majority of women with vulvodynia (90%) will seek ... resources (human and financial) mean the program operates 1 day per week and is limited to women with PVD only. The ... characteristics of participants are presented in  Table 1 .  Participants reported having pain during intercourse ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM January/February 2012
... attenuated monovalent human rotavirus vaccine Rota­rix.[ 1 ] Benefits of this vaccine over the other approved product, ... rarely in Canada. It is estimated that in Canada between 1 in 62 and 1 in 312 children under 5 years old will require ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP January/February 2012
... best to get all our school kids to be active every day for 1 month this year, from 10 April to 10 May. Doctors can then ...
Letters / BY: Robert Obara, BSc, MPH, January/February 2012
... to return to Canada for postgraduate medical training.[ 1 ] Unfortunately, in BC, only 24 of the upcoming match’s ...
Letters / BY: Richard A. Bebb, MD, ABIM, FRCPC January/February 2012
... on the part of the Hypogonadism in Men (HIM) study[ 1 ] authors invalidates the results. While I applaud academic ...
Letters / BY: Matt Mayer, MSc, January/February 2012
... of alcoholism. Health Canada’s Drug Product Database[ 1 ] shows no currently listed medications with disulfiram as ...
Letters / BY: Ralph Jones, MD January/February 2012
... therapy de­livered by the Bristol Cancer Help Centre.[ 1 ] This trial was to be the evidence to publicly fund a ...
Letters / BY: Gerald J.M. Tevaarwerk, MD, FRCPC January/February 2012
... all I knew)” —Rudyard Kipling The article by Dr Bebb[ 1 ] is based on a survey that, left unchallenged, may lead to ... relevance of any publication, we must ask six questions:  1. Who published it?  2. In what group of subjects was the ... would have been lower yet, estimated at approximately 1 in 20, not “Nearly half of men age 45…”  As to ...