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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Michael A Benusic, UBC Medical Class of 2014, June 2013
... inaccessible tight shale formations. These exist about 2 kilometres below the surface in BC, with the majority of ... as the main health concern. While additives make up only 2% of the total flu­id volume, this can represent 40 000 ... in BC, especially given the vast amount of waste fluid (4.2 billion litres in 2009)[ 4 ]  that is transported and ...
Editorials / BY: Willem R. Vroom, MD June 2013
... to question the therapeutic virtues of medical marijuana,[ 2 ] nor is it to call attention to the elephant in the ... completing and processing the required forms B(1) and B(2) can be cumbersome and slow. Once authorized, the patient ...
News June 2013
... UBC Faculty of Medicine have been selected to receive $6.2 million in funding from Genome Canada and the Canadian ...
News&Notes / BY: J.C.A. Morrant, MBBS, DObst, RCOG, DPM, FRCPC, June 2013
... demeanor left her “confounded and stupefied.”[ 2 ] Dr Dominique-Jean Larrey: A reluctant recommendation to ... you—you will suffer—you will suffer very much!”[ 2 ]  Dr Ribe, equally grim, followed suit by in­structing ... medical students. Dr Larrey was as “pale as ashes.”[ 2 ] Dr Dubois seemed agitated, but gave orders like a ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Karen Hossack, MD, June 2013
... physician rated the patient’s function as 1–2 out of 10, pain level as 9–10 out of 10, and noted that ... mood disorder that was likely masked by opioids. Case 2 This worker, now 72 years old, broke his leg 20 years ago. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hans Krueger, PhD, July/August 2013
... Recent guidelines in the United States[ 1 ] and Ontario[ 2 ] recommend that screening start at age 21, while screening ... low incidence rates for cervical cancer in younger women, (2) the relative ineffectiveness of screening in younger ... screened at either age 20 to 21 (OR 1.51; 95% CI, 0.95-2.38) or age 22 to 24 (OR 1.11; 95% CI, 0.83-1.50) when ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Lorraine McIntyre, MSc July/August 2013
... cases of paralytic shellfish poisoning were reported.[ 2 , 3 ]  The illnesses reported in both 2011 and 2012 were ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: A. Maria Chung, MDCM July/August 2013
... pressure sores, or functional and survival outcomes.[ 2 ] It has also been shown that tube feeding does not prevent ...
Editorials / BY: David R. Richardson, MD July/August 2013
... an interesting mental process to look at your toilet for 2 days debating the merits of trying to sit versus the chance ...
Letters / BY: Judith Hammond, July/August 2013
... wheat allergy as one of three gluten-induced conditions.[ 2 ] A small 2011 study recruited 34 patients who ... known food hypersensitivities). This was followed by a 2-week crossover trial—2 weeks of capsules with wheat followed by 1 week of washout ...