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News June 2013
... an adverse reaction, contact Health Canada directly at 1 866 234-2345 or visit the reporting website at ...
News&Notes / BY: J.C.A. Morrant, MBBS, DObst, RCOG, DPM, FRCPC, June 2013
... for its sardonic humor about eighteenth-century life.[ 1 ] She married Aléxandre-Jean-Baptiste Piochard d’Arblay, ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Karen Hossack, MD, June 2013
... include heightened pain sensitivity and accidental death.[ 1-5 ] It is important to note that long-term use of opioids ... achieved by significantly weaning total opioid doses. Case 1 A worker sustained crush injuries 10 years ago when his leg ... prescribing physician rated the patient’s function as 1–2 out of 10, pain level as 9–10 out of 10, and noted ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hans Krueger, PhD, July/August 2013
... cervical cancer. Recent guidelines in the United States[ 1 ] and Ontario[ 2 ] recommend that screening start at age ... suggests four reasons for initiating screening at age 25: (1) the low incidence rates for cervical cancer in younger ... increasing to 9.86 cases for women at age 29 (see  Figure 1 ). This results in an incidence rate of 1.35 per 100 000 ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Lorraine McIntyre, MSc July/August 2013
... vomitus overboard a boat within the harvest area.[ 1 ] In 2011, 62 people became ill during the first recorded ... Centre for inquiries around unusual toxic ex­posures (1 800 567-8911).  As there are no clinical tests for toxic ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: A. Maria Chung, MDCM July/August 2013
... was characterized by discomfort from dyspnoea or pain (41.1%), concurrent illnesses, and bur­densome interventions ... with the 6-month mortality of 25% and median survival of 1.3 years, end-stage dementia is comparable in life ... likely to pursue aggressive, burdensome interventions.[ 1 ] A common burdensome intervention is tube feeding. ...
Letters / BY: Judith Hammond, July/August 2013
... for patients on this food fad,”  BCMJ  2013;55:161 ].[ 1 ] Although I do not doubt that faddism explains a large ... trial—2 weeks of capsules with wheat followed by 1 week of washout and then 2 weeks of capsules with xylose, ...
Letters / BY: John Miller, MD, July/August 2013
... who wanted a cholesterol test repeated. It had been done 1 year ago for reasons unclear to me and her numbers were ...
News July/August 2013
... of British Columbia Project title: Blocking the YB-1 oncogene to circumvent chemotherapy re­sistance and ...
News July/August 2013
... submitted, with a retroactive date of service as early as 1 April 2013, by a locum providing coverage for a physician ... information: PHN#: 975 303 5697  Date of birth: 1 January 2013 Patient Surname: Participation  First name: ...